New York Times Highlights Species Diversity

March 8, 2022October 26, 2023

Take a look at this map. Go to the second letter N in the state of TN and look at the bright red coloration a bit to the left. That is the location of Coal Creek. I am thrilled the New York Times has run this story on the front page, highlighting the critically imperiled species diversity which exist in our neck of the woods.

We have been working with various universities for over a decade to preserve natural resources. This type of media really helps highlight the ecological importance of the Cumberland Plateau.

Read the full article here.

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Soak Creek Farm Grant for Restoration

ByTiffany Crockett September 1, 2021October 27, 2023

We love our working farm, from the cattle to the trees, from the mushrooms to the bees. But the farm doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists in a beautiful biologically diverse system. So we work to improve farm productivity and environment, and support land restoration efforts, while we support the work to do the…

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Ginseng and the Trade War with China

ByGeorge Lindemann January 31, 2020October 27, 2023

Ginseng has quite the reputation. Did you know that Rasputin used ginseng to treat the hemophilia of the last Czar of Russia’s son? Or that ginseng’s scientific name Panax means all-healing in Greek? Now researchers are looking at ginseng to treat COPD and boost cancer-treatment drugs. Wisconsin farmers who cultivate the plant are hopeful that…

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Protecting and Restoring

ByTiffany Crockett September 10, 2020October 27, 2023

At Coal Creek Farm we are committed to generating profits while protecting and restoring environmental resources. We’ve had to make hard choices when invasive insects attack our native trees. We’ve been working with the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative to inventory the natural resources and restore lands that had been clear cut for years. We’ve deployed a…

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Benefits of Controlled Burning

ByTiffany Crockett April 29, 2020October 27, 2023

Coal Creek Farm has rolling hills, flowing water, flora and fauna, and clear cuts. Such beauty contrasted with such abuse. For years, as I drove by those clear-cut trees, I was troubled by the look of it. I knew that the land couldn’t be put into productivity and wasn’t providing much in the way of…

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What’s Next for the Piney and Soak Creek Watershed

ByGeorge Lindemann March 4, 2022October 26, 2023

Coal Creek Farm is special. Over the years we’ve learned a lot about the tension between economic viability and environmental enhancement. We’ve learned that while you sometimes have to choose, more often they are complementary. In the last few weeks a group of people, environmentalists, landowners, government, non-profit and education have successfully closed an effort…

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Invasive Species

ByTiffany Crockett October 14, 2020October 27, 2023

Cut Pile (download) Cut Pile 2 (download) Stump Video (download) This farm is some place special and I intend to manage it so that it maintains what’s breathtakingly beautiful and productive and enhances what needs to be enhanced. The maintenance of it includes management of invasive species. Invasives come as insects and trees. They come…

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