The Nashville Food Project’s Blog
Summer offers children a welcome break from school, but hunger does not follow the academic calendar. When classrooms close, many families lose access to the dependable meals their children receive during the school year. Sweet Peas helps keep nourishing food within reach until those familiar school-day routines return.
Thanks in part to the support of our longtime partner Jackson Financial, Inc., we were able to provide nourishing meals to children across Middle Tennessee throughout the summer.
Nourish 2026 was a powerful celebration of food, community, and connection. From a beautifully collaborative meal prepared by top chefs to stories that highlighted the heart of our mission, the evening brought people together around a shared table and a shared purpose—to nourish Nashville.
Together, their rhythm has been simple and steady. One experimenting. One anchoring. Both caring deeply about the meals that leave the kitchen.
"I feel good from my head tomatoes"
This weekend, the Tomato Art Festival will happen in East Nashville. But we’ve been having an unofficial tomato festival of our own at The Nashville Food Project.
Thanks in part to a donation of Juliet tomatoes from Tallahassee May at Turnbull Creek Farm…
…we’ve had enough to make enchilada sauce and marinara.
We’ve dehydrated tomatoes…
…and roasted them before sealing them up for later.
Yesterday, we added enchilada sauce to quinoa, red beans and beef from Chipotle and stuffed it into green peppers. Anna shows how it’s done.
Then we topped the peppers with cheese and slid them into the oven to warm.
The marquee outside Rosepepper Cantina in East Nashville.