Bells Bend Farms

We last visited beautiful Bells Bend Farms in 2013, so we’re setting the table twice this year to make up for lost time. Eric and Tyler’s 40-acre farm is so close to Nashville you can almost hear the sound of banjos streaming out of honky tonks — but the abundant rows of fresh flowers and vegetables surrounded by lush woods makes it feel like a countryside oasis. Bells Bend is part of a community project to preserve the rural landscape of Davidson County and maintain its thriving foodshed. Farmer Eric has been there since the beginning, volunteering to build a deer fence around the farm in its infancy back in 2008. We’ll hear more from him and wife Tyler on the farm tour before we settle into our early autumn meal in their fields.