Like a lot of Chattanooga Market vendors, Emma Reigel has been faced with challenges and opportunities. In the last half dozen years or so, she has dealt with the loss of her grandfather, James Gowin, a man she describes as her “best friend” and mentor, a degenerative bone disease that led to emergency back surgery, being laid off, and, like all of us, COVID-19.
Out of all that was born Gowin Valley Farms and a growing mushroom business.