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Community Gardens

Our community gardens provide a space for over 80 community gardeners to grow their own vegetables. These garden spaces function as outdoor classrooms, urban sanctuaries, and community centers for the families and individuals who grow in them. We work to create a safe and welcoming place where community can be cultivated. In these spaces we hope to strengthen community relationships, encourage self determination among participants, and grow organic produce. 

At each garden site, we provide land, water, shared tools, and educational opportunities to deepen existing knowledge or skills. We lean on the wisdom, enthusiasm, and history that each gardener brings in the hopes of creating a way for people to connect, learn from one another and share farming and cooking traditions. 


Garden Locations

We steward community gardens at McGruder Family Resource Center in North Nashville and Mill Ridge Park in Antioch, connecting people of all ages with the resources they need — from land and water to seeds and education — to grow food that is fresh, healthy, and culturally relevant.


Other Ways to Get Involved

Learning is one of our core organizational values, and we always love opportunities to share our work and all that we learn from it with groups in our community. Our team currently doesn’t have staff designated to do garden-based education outside the scope of our community garden programming, but we strive to accommodate as many group engagement requests as the capacity of our team allows. If you would like to request a field trip, speaker, or any other garden-based educational experience for your group or organization, please fill out the form below.