Season 8, Episode 10. 03/06/2021
Brenna Wright joins Century Harvest Farms Foundation & Knox City Farm
In this episode, we are setting the table with a story of how urban gardening joins up with a non profit foundation from a rural setting to help change lives through agriculture. We visit today with Brenna Wright formerly of Abby Field Farm, and currently of Knox City Farm and now she is with Century Harvest Farms Foundation. Brenna is well known in the Knoxville community for her success in urban farming and making a positive impact upon the community with agriculture and I want to feature her story to encourage anyone out there listening, wherever you may be that you too can do this in your community.
We also get to hear from Fred Sauceman with his “Potluck Radio” series. Fred features how to make lemonade with NC food writer “Fred Thompson” who is the author of the book “Lemonade”.
And, I also want to share with you a simple recipe that can really make body happy. Sweet potato biscuits.
Century Harvest Farms Foundation: https://centuryharvest.org/
Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman
Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe** This recipe comes from the magazine that is at the register at our local hardware/animal supply store. I want to be sure to give the person who wrote this recipe credit. The recipe comes by way of Johnny Beth Nolan.
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
3 cups, sifted, all purpose flour
1 cup shortening
3 Tablespoons buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
Directions:
Mash cooked sweet potatoes with sugar while hot. Let this stand until cool enough to handle.
Add flour, shortening, and other ingredients. incorporate all of your ingredients but, do not overwork your dough or it will make more gluten form from the flour and can make your biscuits sort of tough and not as fluffy and light.
Roll out on a floured surface to 1/2 inch thickness, and cut with a biscuit cutter or your favorite biscuit cutting glass.
Bake on a cookie sheet at 425 about 10-15 minutes.
These pair really well with country ham, or as a dinner roll with roasted vegetables and pork roast.
There you have it, a pretty simple recipe for sweet potato biscuits.
Brenna Wright, owner of Knox City Farm and now part of Century Harvest Farms Foundation.