This year's lettuce harvest has allowed us to include beautiful salads on over 2,000 meals thus far. This photo is one of the beautiful salads we've made that included TNFP lettuce, strawberries from Nashville Grown and hard boiled eggs from Foggy Hollow. Thanks to all the hundreds of volunteers that planted, tended, harvested, washed, chopped and made these tasty dishes to help us nourish our community.
Many Friends
Our onions are growing strong. Thanks to this awesome group from Friends Life for mulching them well with straw to keep the soil cool and moist. Thanks friends!
A Splash of Color
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!
Sharing Hospitality along with a Meal
A mens group from Woodmont Christian Church pose with Tallu before taking their monthly truck run to Murfreesboro Road, where they share a meal with residents of Mercury Courts. Woodmont, its members and its Senior Minister Dr. Clay Stauffer have been so supportive of our work from the beginning. We are grateful!
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!
A Sweet Donation
Strawberry Salad Forever
Starbucks in the Garden
KLD Farm
Tomatoes Tomatoes!
Bring on the pie!
Growing Community
Good Enough to Eat!
The Urban Gardening Festival is Saturday
Come visit our booth at the Urban Gardening Festival and learn how easy - and helpful - it is to make soil blocks to start your seeds.
Come visit with us this Saturday, May 16, from 9am-4pm at The Urban Gardening Festival on the campus of Ellington Agricultural Center, 5201 Marchand Dr, Nashville, TN 37211. We'll be there demonstrating our soil block technique for starting seeds. This free event is designed to educate and engage visitors with local artisans, exhibitors, gardeners and vendors from throughout the Greater Nashville area. There's so much to learn and experience - plan to spend a fun day!
Dollar General gets cooking!
This great group of folks from Dollar General spent a recent morning in our prep room working on potatoes and veggies for one of our favorite meals - shepherd's pie. Finished with a sprinkle of freshly grown TNFP parsley, this hearty meal served 75 residents at Mercury Courts. Great Job Dollar General!
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.
It's here!
We are so excited to have this new walk-in freezer installed behind our office! Just in time for freezing the abundance of summer crops that come our way. A huge thank you to Judy Wright and Christ Church Cathedral for making it happen!
Cake Mix to Cookies!
We've discovered a delicious way to prepare both almond and lemon cookies from a yellow cake mix. Thank you Anne Byrn AKA "The Cake Mix Doctor" for sharing your excess cake mixes with us!
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.
Turkey (and chicken) pickers!
Here's the best turkey pickin' group in Nashville! Almost 100 pounds of turkeys & chickens were turned into pot pies made with a a rich, homemade broth and lots of fresh vegetables. Our office smelled like grandma's house for days!