The Nashville Food Project, Inc.
Programs
Description
TNFP's Urban Agriculture Program includes vibrant production, community and market garden programming. In production gardens, volunteers support all aspects of growing organic produce for our kitchens, including turning the ground, planting seeds, weeding and harvesting fresh produce. In three community gardens, we provide a space for participants to grow food for themselves and their families, sharing resources of lands, tools, and garden training. And through an innovative market garden program, Growing Together, we support New Americans from farming backgrounds in growing produce to sell for personal income and building community food security along the way. Beyond the value of their earnings, farmers are able to reconnect with the practice of growing food, equipping participants with additional tools to improve their well-being through meaningful work. In these gardens, we are creating space for deep connection to the land and to diverse community-building strategies - places where both people and the land can heal.
Program Areas Served
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TNFP's Urban Agriculture Program includes vibrant production, community and market garden programming. In production gardens, volunteers support all aspects of growing organic produce for our kitchens, including turning the ground, planting seeds, weeding and harvesting fresh produce. In three community gardens, we provide a space for participants to grow food for themselves and their families, sharing resources of lands, tools, and garden training. And through an innovative market garden program, Growing Together, we support New Americans from farming backgrounds in growing produce to sell for personal income and building community food security along the way. Beyond the value of their earnings, farmers are able to reconnect with the practice of growing food, equipping participants with additional tools to improve their well-being through meaningful work. In these gardens, we are creating space for deep connection to the land and to diverse community-building strategies - places where both people and the land can heal.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,972,271.00
Description
TNFP's Meals Program cooks and shares thousands of made-from-scratch, nutritious meals and snacks each week in collaboration with anti-poverty and community building organizations in our city. By aligning food support with these vital programs and services -- such as job training, after school programs, ESL classes, senior services, domestic violence shelter, and GED prep, among others -- we are able to enhance the impact of partners' work while simultaneously providing access to the basic need of nutritious food. These meals are significantly supported by TNFP's food recovery efforts, through which we collect excess produce and other perishable foods from local farms, grocery stores, and restaurants. We work directly with local food vendors to recover the excess foods they cannot sell, providing hundreds of pounds of fresh ingredients for our meals, while greatly reducing the amount of food wasted in our community.
Program Areas Served
None
$1,972,271.00
Description
TNFP's Meals Program cooks and shares thousands of made-from-scratch, nutritious meals and snacks each week in collaboration with anti-poverty and community building organizations in our city. By aligning food support with these vital programs and services -- such as job training, after school programs, ESL classes, senior services, domestic violence shelter, and GED prep, among others -- we are able to enhance the impact of partners' work while simultaneously providing access to the basic need of nutritious food. These meals are significantly supported by TNFP's food recovery efforts, through which we collect excess produce and other perishable foods from local farms, grocery stores, and restaurants. We work directly with local food vendors to recover the excess foods they cannot sell, providing hundreds of pounds of fresh ingredients for our meals, while greatly reducing the amount of food wasted in our community.
Program Areas Served
None
