Volunteer cooks Nancy and Jencie have been cooking for us over a year. They rock in our tiny kitchen! We are so grateful for their talents and support!
It's a Mystery
Hide and Seek
Goodlettsville Middle School
We want to extend our sincerest appreciation for the students at Goodlettsville Middle School who designed and implemented a concessions business to raise money for local causes. We are the humbled and grateful recipient of a generous donation from these young social entrepreneurs. They not only came to present their donation, but happily jumped into several garden projects - on the coldest day of spring! Huge thanks to these students! You are an inspiration!
Getting their Adventure On!
Team Green volunteers rocked a recent Saturday morning volunteer session at our Wedgewood Urban Garden. These folks know how to work hard and have fun doing it. We can't wait til they come back.
In the Kitchen
These friendly members of Harpeth Heights Baptist Church joined us in our prep room recently. Beautiful fruit salads that included local strawberries were the highlight of the salads! If you would like to join us for meal prep, sign up here!
Simply Beautiful
Our spring crops are thriving as we await the much anticipated summer fruits. Pictured here starting from the bottom is a bed of buckwheat, two beds of leaf lettuce, a bed of chard, snow peas (yum!), and finally the tall grass in the background is winter rye. Want to help harvest or pull a few weeds? Drop by anytime.
Salad Train
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!
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
Starbucks in the Garden
Tomatoes Tomatoes!
Good Enough to Eat!
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!
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!
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.