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Farmers ensure the future of their properties for generations to come

This Is Nashville

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Katherine Ceicys
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Farmers and farmland are central to Tennessee’s character and economy. According to the Tennessee Farm Bureau, nearly 40% of our state’s land is farmland — and more than 360,000 people in our state have jobs related to agriculture and forestry.

But Tennessee is rapidly losing its farmland, mostly to development. Once land is developed, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to turn it back to open space or workable land.

So, farmers, non-profits, and the state government are working to help farmers keep their land. This Is Nashville recently visited two Tennessee farmers making plans for the future of the properties their families have owned and worked for generations.

This feature is part of a full episode of This Is Nashville: ‘Once it’s gone, it’s gone.’

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Katherine Ruppelt

Katherine Ruppelt is a senior producer at WPLN. Katherine first came to public radio as a freelancer for WPLN. Her stories have aired on The World and Here and Now. She worked on WPLN's This Is Nashville as a multimedia producer. A native native of Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine has been a bit of a rolling stone- and now calls Nashville home. As a journalist and producer, she is dedicated to helping others tell their stories. She enjoys profiling individuals and communities, covering the personal impacts of policies, the environment, and rural life, and exploring different takes on how to live well as a human. While she’s always finding stories and writing for fun, she also fills her early mornings with yoga, her evenings with cooking and time with friends, and her free time as a happy (and sendy) intermediate climber, whitewater kayaker, diver, and surfer.

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