In 2021 me and my family moved from Boston Massachusetts to Knoxville Tennessee. The move was for a variety of reasons, but that’s not the point of what I am writing about. After the move, two of my siblings (one of which went to GCC) moved on a farm. After 2 and a half years of hard farm work, they bought a retired school bus, renovated it out, and launched a mobiles farmers market called Farmbus. Farmbus is a ‘project’ that turns our farmed produce onto profit. Since launching it my siblings have been working on the business and have been very successful. Something that drives them to work on the bus is money and legacy. Legacy is important as it makes an imprint of our futures. Something that is both interesting an innovating about this business is that while there have been mobile’s farmers markets, one on a bus is something that is innovating, and even if it has been done before elsewhere, it is innovating for the Knoxville area, and people often comment on the uniqueness of it. Principles that I have learned from it is that innovation exists in almost every field, including in farming which to some feels like a super old-fashioned thing. While it has only been less than a year since Farmbus’s launching, the business seems to be on the up and up, and our church connection certainly helps to augment its growth and solidification as well.
Wow, that’s an incredible story! Moving from Boston to Knoxville must have been quite a change. The idea of a mobile farmer’s market on a retired school bus is both innovative and inspiring. It’s great to see how they’ve combined hard work and creativity to launch Farmbus and make it successful. The focus on legacy and innovation truly shows how even traditional fields like farming can evolve and adapt. Plus, having the support of your church community must be a huge help in growing the business.
It is not easy to get up and move from the comforts of your hometown Boston to a new city in Knoxville just like that. Farmbus is an interesting idea It was cool to read how it came to be, and the church being able to help facilitate that growth has also been cool to see. Bringing something different to a new city is also challenging, and the fact that Farmbus was able to do that is awesome to see. Good work!
What an awesome story. I love how you showed that while it wasn’t neccesarily a “new” creation, it was something new to your area and introduced a new concept to people who don’t have access to more innovative concepts.