Our stir fry entrees were topped with TNFP grown cilantro and served along side our fresh salads. This meal made for a colorful week in our prep room and garden. We hope you are enjoying spring produce!
In the garden
GM Financial sent out their A-team to volunteer recently in our gardens. They turned compost, planted carrots, and harvested spinach without one word of complaint on the first day to break 90 degrees this year. Thank you for all the hard work!
Strawberry Salad Forever
Starbucks in the Garden
Tomatoes Tomatoes!
Growing Community
Garden Beauties!
We're happy these two lovely ladies paused a moment from their work to have some fun for the camera. Stop by sometime to see what all their hard work has produced. Linda has outfitted our new herb dryer with shelves and Madi has filled the greenhouse with seedlings for our final Project Grow pick up this week.
Last summer, students from the Oasis Center worked in partnership with The Frist Center to make this beautiful art installation that hangs over the refugee toolshed at our Wedgewood Urban Gardens. Some of the students continue to volunteer weekly in the garden and are proud to show their artwork to their peers from the International Teen Outreach Program.
McGruder garden is ready for spring!
Thanks to these ladies for contributing their artwork to the McGruder Community Garden. This space is now truly full of life in many senses of the word!
Thanks to these students from Glencliff High School for volunteering in the garden. They worked hard to dig a new plot in the orchard, and the community gardeners have since planted it with potatoes!
After planting spring crops and working together to get seed potatoes in the ground, the McGruder Green Thumbers gathered around picnic tables to relax and enjoy a delicious lunch.
Herbs!
Thanks to the Herb Society of Nashville for donating herbs left over from their annual plant sale! We were able to share these herbs with the community gardeners we support at McGruder FRC, Wedgewood Urban Gardens and the Refugee Agriculture Program. For more about the herb society, visit their website here: http://www.herbsocietynashville.org
Welcome Bees!
Ensworth School grows for our community
We love our partnership with Ensworth's 3rd grade classes. They purchase our seedlings through Project Grow, we help them plant their raised beds, and they donate the produce they harvest back to our kitchens. A pretty sweet deal on our end! We like to think they're gaining something as well: gardening skills and a fun, tangible way to give back to their community.
Turn, turn, turn
Feeling a little slouch after a long winter hibernation? Nothing gets the blood flowing like turning compost at our gardens. Come by anytime to see what's cooking in our compost pile!
Garden Teamwork
This candid photo captures two friends from Glencliff's International Teen Outreach Program as they hand off a bucket of seed potatoes. We truly love having these students in our garden--they bring so much joy and positivity with them every single time.
You've gotta love spring when this is what 6pm looks like in the garden!