Did you know 28% of all waste in Nashville is compostable material? Here at TNFP, the idea and act of composting is a value: taking our forgotten bits, our discarded carrot ends, broken eggshells and spent coffee grounds and diverting them to be used as rich inputs for the earth which we've too often abused and abandoned. Learn how YOU can make gold out of your own leftovers, including FREE compost drop-off at select Metro convenience centers.
Homemade Pasta
Any given day you walk through The Nashville Food Project’s kitchens or gardens, the incredible care put into the little details of the work is so evident. One great example? Every week, a group of friends and acquaintances comes together in our kitchens to make fresh bread and pasta from scratch for our meals program.
A Guide to Seed Starting
That Special Sauce
In the past year, The Nashville Food Project has cooked and shared over 204,000 made-from-scratch meals with 47 meal sites... which means rain or shine, we're loading up and delivering good food around our city. Last week, I shadowed our Distribution Manager, Emily Novak, for a behind the scenes look at what goes into these meal deliveries…
Rocky Glade Farm
Basic Chicken Stock
The Farmer & Chef Bond
Last week the Growing Together farmers hosted a visitor at their weekly training - Jessica Benefield, chef and partner at Two Ten Jack and The Green Pheasant. Jessica and her husband, Trey Burnett, were some of the first chefs to seek out and maintain a consistent relationship with Growing Together.
Mill Ridge Community Farm: A Place to Grow
To continue and expand TNFP’s thriving garden programs, we are excited to announce a new partnership with Metro Parks and Friends of Mill Ridge Park to develop a community farm at Metro Nashville's newest Regional Park, Mill Ridge Park in Antioch!
In Case of Emergency
Not Just About the Meal
It’s not just about the meal. We want our food to be the backdrop, the engine, the song in the background of all the good work of our partners. A few weeks ago, we received the note below from our amazing meals partner Preston Taylor Ministries - her feedback on a recent meal shared by TNFP with their community…
Gratefull : A City-Wide Thanksgiving Feast
"Hey Thanks"
We were so grateful to read this INSPIRED article "Hey Thanks, Nashville Food Project" in this week's Nashville Scene. Each Scene editor was asked to write a thank you letter to a person, place or organization in Nashville. The Scene's culture editor, Erica Ciccarone, was a community gardener with TNFP at Wedgewood Urban Gardens this summer…
4 Favorite Cookbooks
If you’ve ever volunteered in our kitchens, you know there’s a lot of creativity involved in planning meals based on what seasonal produce is available from our production gardens, along with what food we’ve received as donations…
A Book and a Garden
Ordinary
Triple Your Impact: A Crowdfunding Guide
Bottle Gourd Curry
One of the things we love most about the connection between our gardens and our kitchens is the fun challenge of incorporating local, seasonal foods you don’t often find at area grocery stores. For example? All summer long, a vine has been working its way up, over and all around the trellis entryway to the Woodmont garden behind TNFP’s office...
Guest and Host
Volunteer Spotlight: Linda
New HQ Preview Party - A Recap
Last Thursday, we celebrated the construction of our new headquarters and officially launched our capital campaign - A Longer Table - with a community-wide preview party of the site! Slated to officially open in December, the building will include a large, open concept space for TNFP’s food prep, meal support, food recovery and garden programs.