The Battle Blog

Please join us on Saturday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m. at Payne Avenue Baptist Church for our first fundraising event! In partnership with the UT Gospel Choir, Gospel In The Gardens, will have food, fellowship and an opportunity to GIVE! We accept cash, check, Venmo, CashApp and PayPal donations, no…

Treat yourself and listen to Chris share about his redemption through farming on The Biggest Table podcast. Clearly, there is nothing he can’t do. Husband, father, pastor, author, farmer, model, comedian, chicken wrangler extraordinaire……. “A chance encounter with a gentleman back in 2008, while he and his church were cleaning…

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2024/01/16/knoxvilles-chris-battle-of-battlefield-farms-featured-in-people/72243583007/ Chris Battle is already well-known in Knoxville and East Tennessee for his work creating BattleField Farm & Gardens. From the organization’s beginnings as a “gleaning fence,” providing fresh vegetables next to Tabernacle Baptist Church, to the founding of BattleField Farm & Gardens in 2018 and the delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables to several…

https://people.com/pastor-leaves-his-church-to-feed-the-hungry-on-urban-farm-8425557 “Four years have passed since Battle, 62, left his job as senior pastor at the Tabernacle Baptist Church — one of Knoxville’s oldest Black Baptist congregations — to grow and deliver fresh produce to residents of a city neighborhood where healthy food is scarce. “I’m doing something that’s meeting a…

Join us this Saturday, October 14, 2023 for a pallet painting party. We will start at 9:00 a.m. and will be out there until we are done painting. All paint and painting supplies donations are welcome!! We are looking forward to the community coming out to support us!

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Hear Rev. Chris Battle’s sermon “Repent, Resist” delivered at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Knoxville TN on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, the Sunday before Juneteenth, June 18, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W98EoVZFqEs&t=6s

WATE’s Tearsa Smith speaks with Chris Battle about his work to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to his community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2gj9XIzElY

Ms. Charlie said, “There might be ‘bang bang’ outside, but mamma always got some food to cook!” Kat & Kelly are full of Joy The Fannie Lou Crew Kat, Kelly, Lydia and me