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25 year old Jake Slagle of Sullivan County has turned his family’s property into a farming operation. Now referred to Mud Hollow Farm, Slagle grows fresh produce there and send it out in CSA boxes to customers front door.
Thomas Capps
From farm to your front door. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I’m Thomas Capps.
Jake Slagle
I enjoy people being able to see where their food is coming from.
Thomas Capps
25 year old Jake Slagle has only been out of college for a few years, but already he’s turning his family’s property in Sullivan county into a successful farming operation. Now known as Mud Hollow Farms, Slagle grows fresh fruits and vegetables there.
Jake Slagle
Growing up I got really intrigued with plants, so we started growing plants and then I went off to college and when I came back, I decided to kind of start a business out of it and put some greenhouses out.
Thomas Capps
Slagle’s main focus is growing hydroponic lettuce. A skill he learned in college in Colorado.
Jake Slagle
The hydroponic lettuce, that was what I studied at school the most. I did a bunch of independent studies and researches on NFT systems like this one here behind me. So when I came home, I knew that was something I could do and have success with.
Thomas Capps
Lettuce isn’t the only thing Slagle grows.
Jake Slagle
We have a little strawberry patch that we started this year. We do pumpkins in the fall and sunflowers and tomatoes in the field peppers, we don’t designate just a one thing we have a wide variety of things.
Thomas Capps
They take their produce to various farmers markets in the area, but the majority of it goes into community supported agriculture boxes that people order the CSA boxes delivered right to people’s doorsteps filled with the fresh produce grown at mud hollow farms.
Jake Slagle
We do a delivery CSA box every week. Majority of it goes into a lot of the lettuces we take to restaurants in the area with access and then we’ll take if we have an excess of anything we usually take it to the admin farmers market or the actual Farmers Market If there’s more than what our CSA boxes can hold.
Thomas Capps
60 people subscribe to the CSA boxes every week and another 30 or more order individually. Schlegel says it feels good to feed his community and feed his passion for agriculture.
Jake Slagle
That’s been something I’ve always wanted to do from high school on that it’s nice people can come by and see what they’re getting and delivered to their house
Thomas Capps
For Tennessee home and Farm Radio. I’m Thomas Capps. Thanks for listening and have a great day.
