Insider Language

• CSA: community supported agriculture
• markets
• organic
• pesticide free
• bio-dynamic:" is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms,emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing system without external inputs insofar as this is possible given the loss of nutrients due to the export of food. As in other forms of organic agriculture, artificial fertilizers and toxic pesticides and herbicides are strictly avoided."
• raw milk and cheeses: dairy products that aren't pasteurized
• rBHT free: dairy products from animals not fed a growth hormone
• regional
• free range
• pasture and grass fed: animals whose main diet is grass rather than corn and grain
• Farmer Dave: a well known farmer who provides a lot of the local restaurants with produce
• Nashville Restaurant Group: a group of local restaurants  most of whom use local produce and products
• Pick Tennessee: campaign focused on promoting local and regional products
• Sustainability: defined as "an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific application that will last over the long term."