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BELLEVUE, Tennessee ( WTVF ) -- Many people in the Middle Tennessee community are stepping up to love their neighbors right now, including a farmer in Bellevue who’s using his resources to pay it forward and provide free food to families with the uncertainty of SNAP benefits.

Shaun Daugherty, who runs S.E. Daugherty and Sons Farm said in the farming business, there are plenty of ups and downs, and Daugherty has lived through both.

“We went four or five years without making a penny,” he said. “We’re getting better at our craft and a slow uptick, and with that blessing I think I should help others whenever I can.”

Before the family farm became successful, Daugherty remembers barely getting by.

“I remember working my way through college full time an

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