The East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center   is one of ten AgResearch and Education Centers located throughout Tennessee. It serves as a field laboratory providing experimental plots, lands, livestock, orchards, equipment, and other types of support for research programs developed by AgResearch scientists. It was established on land purchased by the university in 1869. Since that time, six units have been added totaling in 1,968 acres.

The Center’s Live and Learn Internship program allows undergraduate students in the Herbert College of Agriculture to live in housing on the units in exchange for working a set number of hours each week. Check out the video below to hear some of the interns’ favorite parts of the program.