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Faith, Food, and Community Feat. Pastor Chris Battle
This week we welcome Pastor Chris Battle, owner of BattleField Farm Gardens! In part 2 we discussed the food insecurity in our community. Pastor Battle is partnering with community members to make fresh food accessible and to cultivate land-based sovereignty through education, workforce development, and direct relationships to land.
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Speaker 3:Welcome back to Talking Tennessee with Yvonca. I am your host and I am in part two conversation with Pastor Chris Battle and I have so enjoyed talking to you.
Speaker 4:Welcome back Likewise Thank you.
Speaker 3:Yes. So let's get back to you know, this great conversation How's your life changed since you came out of the pulpit?
Speaker 4:Oh, it has been. I'm not going to say dramatic, but it's definitely different. I'm probably much happier.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 4:I was telling somebody that the other day and they say yeah, we can tell you know, that's a hard job.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I don't want to see that. But you've got to be a man first, then the pastor, then you've got to run the congregation. You've got to run the congregation. That's a hard job.
Speaker 4:But I think what was happening, what I understand about me, is how I was pastoring. I stopped being me.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:And I'm not good at that.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay.
Speaker 4:And but yeah, I am. I am much happier. There's a greater sense of fulfillment.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:I think I'm really hitting a need in the community, addressing a need in the community, so yeah, so it was.
Speaker 3:It was probably dramatic when it first happened because you've been doing it for so long, yeah, but it was the shift in you evolving from one thing to the next. Yeah, and let's talk about the next. The next the next is Battlefield Farms.
Speaker 4:So we had the garden in 2018. Okay, and as I said in the last segment, we realized that I believe, Ivanka, that we have the solution to most of our problems.
Speaker 4:We are the solution to most of our problems. Okay, if the problem is options on healthy food, we got plenty of lots around here that are empty. Church has got plenty of fields that they can use in the community for community garden. People can start growing their own. We can teach them how to can. We can teach them how to cook. We can teach them how to grow it. Correct, you know. And so I reached out to some pastor friends of mine and we had lunch together. I shared, I said, hey, if you do a garden, you know I will help you. Abc, I said, and we'll be fighting food disparity in the community. And I talked about all the issues and things like that. But I said, secondly, you'll start meeting the people in the community, right, okay, you'll start getting to meet your neighbors yes um, and so that we had a couple of churches who did it immediately.
Speaker 4:Some came later um and are like right now, the uh, pastor richard brown, community garden stuff. That's like our star cake, that's our star one now right, yes, and it's interesting. It's like once other pastors saw that one like oh, they start raising they're like so we've literally plowed up two more gardens this week, at churches, you know oh, wow yeah, um and so, so, um, that that was what we were doing.
Speaker 4:We also in in 2018, I'm like well, if a food desert is defined by how close you are to a grocery store or farmer's market, why don't we get a farmer's market started? Yeah, that's one of those duh, yeah. So I reached out to Nourish Knoxville. Nourish Knoxville runs all the farmer's markets in the city.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:And I said, what do we have to do to get a market in the hood? They said, well, there's some other groups who are talking about that. I'm like, well, who are they? They said, well, Stan Johnson with Seed. Oh, I know Stan he said I know Stan. I know Stan Vivian Williams with Women in Agro you mean Reverend Vivian Williams.
Speaker 3:Yes, I know her, I know her too.
Speaker 4:Tanisha Baker with Five Points Up. She's a member of our congregation, yes, so we got together and we started the East Side Sunday Market. Okay, and so we called it East Side Sunday Market, because it's on the east side and it's on Sunday.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:You're supposed to laugh at that and we run from June through September from one to four. So we got the market going, but for me I'm like that's still not enough. We got churches going, right. We're trying to get churches going. We've also helped co-found a group called Rooted East, and Rooted East works more on individual gardens, individual home gardens. Battlefield works more on community gardens, right. Okay, so we had a little garden at the church and we had the market right. We had the market that was meeting in the church yard and one of the gardens there, or one of the farms there, was Abbey Field. Abbey Field was a two-acre urban farm that was, by the old standard, knitting mill right there on like Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:Park Ridge, and so they were serving in our farmer's market. They were serving in our farmer's market and the young lady that was running it left and they needed somebody to run it.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:And for some reason I raised my hand.
Speaker 3:He said he raised his hand For some reason I raised my hand. And so I went from a 16. You know you needed to raise your hand.
Speaker 4:But I went from a 16 by 12 plot to two acres.
Speaker 3:Oh yes, oh yes, okay, you understand.
Speaker 4:I didn't realize what I was getting into.
Speaker 3:I'm a realtor, I know that.
Speaker 4:And we rebranded it. Was called Abbeyfield, we rebranded it Battlefield.
Speaker 3:I love the name.
Speaker 1:A play on my name. Yes, it's funny because people think legacy people think that's my last name.
Speaker 4:Hey, mr Battlefield. Yeah you know and you're like no, but it's a play on my name, but also because we're in this war against food disparity.
Speaker 3:I got a question. Sure, I got a question about that, and this was a question from a viewer that wanted me to ask you this when you go to East Knoxville Kroger's, okay, you go in their produce. It looks if you go to okay West Knoxville Kroger's versus East Knoxville Kroger's.
Speaker 4:Well, you ain't got to go that far. Okay, you can go to East Knoxville, to Fellini. You know where I'm going right, I know exactly where you're going.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to understand why the produce in East Knoxville Kroger's is so small compared to other Kroger's in other areas.
Speaker 4:Well you have to ask him.
Speaker 3:Like I said, this is a viewer question. They said please ask him this.
Speaker 4:I think it's a few reasons.
Speaker 3:I wanted to hear you, number one.
Speaker 4:It's just like why gas prices higher in East Knoxville than they are in West Knoxville. Okay, it's because when people have limited choices, you can always raise prices. Ok because if I don't have it, if I can only buy from this gas station, ok, they can do whatever they want to do. Yes, you know. So prices get higher. I don't know, I don't. I haven't seen food being smaller. I haven't noticed that, unless they're talking about the section.
Speaker 3:The section. The section is smaller. They're talking about the section Because they know we're not eating it.
Speaker 4:Okay, you know. I mean when you're in a food desert, the problem is we're also in a food swamp. Okay, Now, a food swamp is when there are four unhealthy options to every healthy option. So when I go to my Kroger, I pass maybe nine, ten unhealthy options. You're right. I'm talking about fast food, dollar stores, corner stores, okay, and so the chains are going to build their. They're going to cater to who they think is going to come.
Speaker 3:Okay, that makes sense If they said, well, they're going to eat ramen noodles, they're not going to eat cucumbers, so why have a big cucumber section? That makes sense, you see.
Speaker 4:so I think, that's what's happening there. Now let East Knoxville start demanding more fresh vegetables.
Speaker 3:Okay, see what happens. But do you see why they're asking that? Because it's like you see this big old variety at a Kroger's even if you said Broadway, okay, versus these nostrils and I'm like so. If we're talking about growing fresh produce and all that and what you do in the community, I'm like so why is that? But that makes sense. They're more catering to what they think someone's going to eat and what's going to sell, more than versus giving variety.
Speaker 4:And think fresh produce is expensive. It's more expensive If I can get three cans of green beans for a dollar and then a pound of green beans costs two dollars.
Speaker 3:So is this the effect of the food desert? Is it local or is it other there?
Speaker 4:are 15 identified food deserts in Knoxville Okay. That affect about 50,000 of our neighbors. It's a nationwide issue.
Speaker 3:That's my question.
Speaker 4:It's a nationwide issue. This is not something that's local. I mean, this is nationwide. What we're trying to do in East Knoxville, and particularly I focus on the 37915 zip code, or south of Magnolia Okay, that's the area we work in. There's no grocery store in the 15 zip code, none whatsoever. Okay.
Speaker 3:Sure.
Speaker 4:And because you know it's not going to cater to poverty Correct, it doesn't cater to poverty. It's not going to cater to poverty, correct, it doesn't cater to poverty. So what we're trying to do is to set up a system, a system of gardens farmer's market, whatever. And we are working on doing a grocery store.
Speaker 3:So, when it comes to local government, what are they doing or what can you share that they do? I haven't asked the government for anything?
Speaker 4:Did you not hear what I said? I'm just asking the question I said, we are the solution to our own problems. You see, so just look at it like this. Okay, so just look at it like this. So if everybody and I may be too, I don't know too theoretical or whatever but if everybody grew one crop, Okay. You know you grew good tomatoes. You know Joe grows good okra, Sam grows good potatoes, Somebody else grows good. Everybody grows one crop.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:We could practically eat for free.
Speaker 3:That's true For sure.
Speaker 4:Because we share, we barter and we also start creating community, because I'm going to watch out for you. I'm going to watch your stuff. I like how you do your work.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. So let me say this when he says community, let's take it back to what we were talking about in the first episode, about kingdom building and church. That's what kingdom is. That is kingdom building. I don't think, pastor Beth, I could be totally wrong. I don't think a lot of people they've heard kingdom building, but I don't think a lot of people they've heard kingdom building, but I don't think a lot of people know what kingdom building is.
Speaker 4:I think we've been bamboozled into believing that kingdom is in heaven yes, I don't believe that let your will be done on earth, earth, earth and I think we can create king.
Speaker 4:I think that's what we were called to do. I think that's what the church was responsible to do to create kingdom. I I I talk about us to help communities so look what happened. So so I asked a question. Is I was like what is so inviting, intriguing about your church that people just yearn to come there? Oh, we got a good choir, our preacher's okay. But, I don't know any church locally. I don't know if I know of any church period. Yes, that, just people. Just like I got to go here, right.
Speaker 3:Right, I got to go here Right Now.
Speaker 4:But we do have an example of not so much a church but a city that was like that in the Bible. It's called the city of Goshen. Goshen is where the Hebrews stayed when they were enslaved in Egypt. Okay, they were enslaved in Egypt and that's where the slaves were. That's where Goshen was the spot, because Bible talks about that. The Egyptians, that the shepherds, were detestable to the Egyptian. They couldn't stand them, so just put them over there somewhere else. They'll build, they'll be our slaves, they'll build our pyramids, they'll do our dirty work, but they can't live with us.
Speaker 3:Okay, it was a red line community.
Speaker 4:All of a sudden, the signs or the plagues come.
Speaker 3:Right, right.
Speaker 4:And the Bible says something very interesting, particularly at the fourth plague I think it was the plague of flies. It says but God made a distinction between Goshen and Egypt. So while there were flies in Egypt, there were no flies in Goshen. When hell was hitting Egypt wasn't no hell in Goshen. When darkness covered the earth for three days, there was light in Goshen. Yes, what do you think those Egyptians were doing? Whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Our cattle are dying, our flocks are dying. We got all these flies and frogs.
Speaker 4:I'm going to go she yes, but daddy, you told us not to talk with them. You told us they are nasty people, that they're beneath us right now. It don't matter, because their god is doing something there and we're going to go there and the Bible is doing something different and that's attractive, that's intriguing, and the Bible says that when they left Egypt, they left. It was a mixed congregation.
Speaker 4:There were Hebrews and Egyptians who left to get slave owners and and slave and slaves are now leaving together as liberated people. And I'm like well, why can't we be like Goshen? Yes, you know. Why can't we have a food system that provides for everybody? Why can't we have an educational system that provides for everybody? Why can't we have a housing system where nobody is homeless? Why can't we have that?
Speaker 3:We can, but we got to have the will to do it and we have to humble ourselves and, no matter what we have, we have to help our brother, our sister and build them up and not compare ourselves to each other. And I think that's the biggest thing is stop the comparing, get into. I want a unified spirit. I want unity, not dividing spirit, because I think that's the biggest thing is what can we do for battlefield farms? Well, we can support them. We can come out and volunteer. We can come out and come to Pastor Battle and say, hey, what can I do in laboring? You know, what can I do to help build up battlefield farms, because all you're doing is kingdom building and you're feeding your community.
Speaker 4:And what's crazy from it's been crazy for me has been the support that we have received. I mean, it's just been coming from everywhere, because what I'm learning is like I'm like one of the concerns it took us a year to leave the church Because we had decided we were going to leave but we couldn't find a house big enough. I guess I should have called you, you should have called me.
Speaker 4:You should have called me Pastor Patrick we couldn't find a house big enough, because I think we had eight kids in the house at that point on the east side of town.
Speaker 3:Remember 19.
Speaker 4:That we could afford Right that we could afford. Because, now that I'm leaving the church, I ain't got no money.
Speaker 3:Yes, correct, I ain't got no money, can I tell you and he had to truly step out on fame.
Speaker 4:So housing was our big thing. So what happened was the wife had a nonprofit for single moms and there was only one mom in the house at that point. So they decided to. We decided to let her and the girls go over. I think there was five girls, six girls, something like that at the time. So they all went over to the house. One of the members had a little two bedroom house. She said, pastor, you can just stay in my house. Okay, so we was living rent for me and the boys. So me and the boys at one house. The wife and the boys. So me and the boys had one house.
Speaker 1:The wife and the girls had another house which was actually kind of cool. Yes, but anyway they said it was kind of cool.
Speaker 3:They said it was quiet, it was kind of quiet.
Speaker 4:So I had a meeting with a guy on a Saturday and the next day was going to be my last Sunday at the church, right, and I had told him. I said, hey, this is what our situation is. We were talking about something. That was the small talk, you know, and I'm like, yeah, so tomorrow we're going to be leaving and so, but we're living in separate houses. So we had our conversation, we talked about what we came to talk about.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:We said our goodbyes. Sunday morning I got up there, said my goodbyes, preach my sermon left monday morning I'm at the farm and they got that gentleman that I spoke with on saturday text me hey, chris, you at the farm like yeah, can I come talk with you?
Speaker 4:sure? So we came, we came, we sat down, it was hot, I needed a break. He said, man, me and my wife have been praying for y'all, thank you. And we got this big old house and it's just the two of us. If we moved out, would you and your family consider moving in? So I'm, I'm, I'm in, so I'm weeping now.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was about to say I know you was in tears and I'm like, but I ain't got no money, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't even know what I'm. He says how much can you afford? I told him he said well, that was as low as we said we could go.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 4:So I'm.
Speaker 3:Guy, you know, you Bad boy.
Speaker 4:He said come on by the house. No pressure, but we just felt the Lord leading us this way and come on by the house tomorrow. You bring the family by the house tomorrow night. Whatever. Look at the house. If you like it, fine. If not, if you don't think it'll work, fine. So that was Monday. I called hey, baby, you ain't going to believe what just happened. And of course, so we sneaking by the house.
Speaker 3:Because it was in the same community as the farm, right, he was probably like I can't even get in the same room, boy.
Speaker 4:And so I'm at the farm Tuesday morning. The next Tuesday morning One of my volunteers comes up and she goes. Chris, me and my husband have been praying for y'all and we got this big old house. And husband been praying for y'all and we got this big old house and we was wondering if we moved out. Would y'all consider?
Speaker 3:moving in.
Speaker 4:I'm flabbergasted I'm I'm knocked out I'm speechless I'm like now I get to choose between two houses and I'm so, god, you're telling me.
Speaker 3:Remember when God said that, and I'm paraphrasing Remember when he said I'll bless you beyond your imagination.
Speaker 4:Well, this was definitely beyond. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I tell my husband all the time. Because blessings are coming, david will go. You should expect it because you do good. And I said but, david, to a certain extent you can't expect something you can't imagine.
Speaker 4:But the crazy thing for me was and I mean, I don't know how many times I've heard this is that who would think that it's like what was holding us back? God said I already got this taken care of. Faith. You gotta have faith. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4:So we, we end up going with the first house okay which meant they had to go buy a house, but they can, okay, and so, um, I'll never forget. I got a text wow, chris, we found a house, they they've accepted our bid. If everything goes well, we'll close may 30th, june 1st, you guys can move in, he said. But we got one problem. I'm like what's the problem? The house we're buying is bigger than the house we live in. So instead of us moving out of that house into the bigger house and you moving from your houses to this house, why don't y'all just move into the bigger house?
Speaker 3:Pastor Battle stop.
Speaker 4:And your rent will stay the same. Pastor, Battle stop and your rent will stay the same Pastor Battle stop. And so for two years we lived in Park Ridge in a five-bedroom house for $800 a month.
Speaker 3:Only God can do that, only God and.
Speaker 4:I told my boy I'm telling you the truth, but that's how God was working. But what was happening for me is like God, you're telling me I'm on the right path, you're affirming me, that's what was getting me, that's what you know. Beyond the miracle of that, it was that you are affirming that what is going on is a God thing.
Speaker 3:God just gave me confirmation of something in my life through what you just said every good thing is not a God thing but this was a God thing and I can't tell you how much support that have been given to.
Speaker 4:I don't worry about stuff anymore. It took me 60 years but I just quit. I'm like, okay, I see, you can handle it. I've been preaching, trusting God, for 40 years. I really believe it now because I've seen it, I've witnessed it. The property that we're on now. They sold that property that we were at. We were leasing that property at two acres. I'm not going to tell all all the story we ain't got all that time, but anyway I'm talking with a guy and he said oh man, we got a whole bunch of property around here. You know. He said there's a property piece on boys bridge, go look at it, see if you like we talk about it. So I'm like, oh, this might work, you know. So we, we're out there you know, you got favor and and and.
Speaker 4:Even how I met that guy was crazy. But you need to read my book. But anyway, yes, yes, because you're blowing my mind. We go out there and I'm looking online and this property is $50,000. Just land, don't have them. I'm like I don't have $50,000. So I went home I said, well, maybe let me offer him $20,000. And I'll lay out in sackcloth and ashes and fast you know. So he contacts me. Hey, chris, you still interested in the property? Oh, very much. So Just trying to figure out how we're going to raise this money, right, because I don't have $50,000.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm getting ready to offer him $20,000.
Speaker 4:He goes well you know we didn't settle on a price. Would $5,000 work? I'll have the check for you Friday.
Speaker 3:Pastor Battle, get up and get out.
Speaker 4:Are you serious?
Speaker 3:I'm serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 4:But that stuff has been happening over and over and over again and I am truly convinced, like I said, for 30 some odd years I'm asking churches bring your tithes, bring your offerings, you know, bring this money. And begging folks, just so we can meet budget. Leave the church, start a garden and folks just start throwing money at you Because I believe people support causes. And if they know that you're in the will of God if you know that youfiting community.
Speaker 3:People support it and when they see you labor, when they see that sweat equity, that you put in there and they see that you believe in something they're going to help to grow it. I truly believe that that's amazing.
Speaker 4:And it's been a wonderful journey and it's like so we had a church out here Concord United Methodist Church. They support a lot of they got a beautiful garden out there, but they support a lot of pantries with sweet potatoes or whatever.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:So they, Brother Mike, called me and said Brother Chris, would you like some sweet potatoes? I'm like yeah sure. How much would you like? I'm like how much you got. I came home with 210 pound bags of sweet potatoes, a ton of sweet potatoes. I put them out on the farm stand. I get on Facebook live. I said y'all come get these taters right and I promise you, within two hours they were gone. People were coming from everywhere.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, and this happened a couple of times right.
Speaker 4:So, it hit me. I said now you know, the demographic that I'm trying to reach may not have transportation, may not have Wi-Fi. How do I get this to them? So I said well, maybe we need to get like a veggie van or something like that. So we went on this quest for a veggie van, a mini bus that we could convert right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:And they were running brand new $72,000 or so.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you still had to convert it right.
Speaker 4:I'm like I got on Facebook marketplace, right, and I'm looking at stuff and I and there was someone who nice, you know, between five and ten thousand which was affordable you know right. I'm like but you know something, this is hold off. Okay, you know I got the money. But you know how something just says hold off. Okay, you know I got the money, but just hold off. And so because that was one.
Speaker 2:I was getting ready to put the money down so I text.
Speaker 4:A friend of mine I said you know, you know, you and I are both men of visions and dreams. I'm laying it all right, you know and I told him what we were going to do and I said the what we were going to do. And I said the only difference between you and I is that your pockets are deep and my pockets got holes in them.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:And this was Steve Diggs, who runs Emerald Foundation right. And I said if you got a minibus that's coming off the line, would you consider us, I think. Two weeks later I bought one for $1,500. That's Steve Diggs, but the whole thing is that you know, and so and we renamed it. You know, fannie Lou after Fannie Lou Hamer.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 4:And we got it all painted up. We converted it. My boy, ruben, fixed it up inside. Yeah. And so every week now we take out a couple of tons of produce to the community, you know, because a lot of times people can't get to the grocery store. We had a look, I heard a lady say this. She said and it broke my heart because I've always had a car- Right.
Speaker 4:I've always since I was 16. I've had my first one was a 68 Rambler with three on the tree. You don't know nothing about that, but anyway. No, the gear shift was on the collars, the steering column. But I've always had a car Go get my groceries. If I forgot something, just go back. You know, that's why you have a bunch of kids, so they can carry their groceries in.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:This lady said this it takes her three to four hours to do her grocery shopping using public transportation here in Knoxville and this is what got me. She says, but I can only purchase what my walker will allow me and it broke my heart and you know. I had never, I had never thought about it like that, and so I mean I was like it, just like, put me in her shoes. I'm like well, if people can't get food, you know, how do we get it to them?
Speaker 4:That's how the idea of the veggie van comes up. So we go out every day.
Speaker 3:You know we didn't go out today because it's Juneteenth, but he was still serving. He still was at the parade, he was still serving he still was at the parade.
Speaker 4:He was still serving the community. While everybody else was passing out candy, we was passing out potatoes there you go and potatoes are going to be good for dinner tonight. Yep, and some onions, ok so that's one way that you serve. We're moving now toward doing a mobile grocery store, okay, and we're hoping to do a grocery store in the community. That's our goal, but, again, hopefully we'll be able to replicate this in some of the other food deserts that are in Knoxville.
Speaker 3:So my next question is how do people get involved? Where do you need help?
Speaker 4:Well, we always need volunteers. Okay, we need people to do some gardening. Okay, great. So we have the Payne Avenue Garden. We have a garden at Stop and Go on Dandridge yes, some of our African refugee brothers and sisters are using that one um, then we have one um on chestnut and um martin luther king, right behind holiday market. We call it the concrete garden because it's literally a garden on concrete. We just got raised beds there, um, so we always need people to do that where, like I said, we, uh, we've established a couple more gardens that are going to be getting going next year. Okay, at st Paul, baptist and Lonsdale that new friendship. After we we plowed them up this week, we're going to be amending the soil yeah, how do they get in contact?
Speaker 3:or who, how do they the?
Speaker 4:best way to contact. Yes, you can email me at chris at battlefieldfarmorg. Say it one more time chris C-H-R-I-S at battlefieldfarmorg and that's the best way to contact me and we'll be glad to let you know, or go to our website battlefieldfarmorg battlefieldfarmorg.
Speaker 3:So what's on the horizon?
Speaker 4:Well, right now the mobile grocery store. We're hoping that'll be running this year and then we're in hopes that we will do a grocery store in the community as well. It's going to be an affordable grocery store where everything we sell will just be a nickel over cost.
Speaker 3:Do y'all hear that? Yeah, a nickel over cost. Pastor Battle, thank you for coming in, being so open to talk about you know, your journey, the things you've learned, the things that you're trying to, you know put out in the community and all the kingdom building that you're doing. This door is always open for you. If you ever need to come back and you ever need us, the door is always open to you. I know God. It took this part of it for God to tell me why this interview wasn't last year. You gave me confirmation in my life, so I say this I hope God blesses you beyond your imagination. I know he will and I've really enjoyed you.
Speaker 4:Thank you, I enjoyed being here today.
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