Join The Nashville Food Project as we celebrate the beginning of the growing season at McGruder Community Garden! Nestled in historic North Nashville, McGruder Community Garden is a shared space where community members work together to grow vegetables for themselves, their friends, and their families.

We’re gathering to get to know one another, learn about the history of the garden from its founders, and work on some tasks to prepare for the season including seeding, sorting, painting and more! It’s a potluck, so bring a dish and a story to share. Plus, just by showing up, you’ll be entered to win a Patagonia gift basket (valued at over $150!), and you’ll receive an additional entry if you bring a friend.

All are welcome, but we hope you’ll sign up to garden with us all year long! Become part of our tight-knit community at the link below.

Join Caity Guszkowski, the creative force behind CaityPies, as she takes you through each step of her baking process in a memorable hands-on lesson. You’ll be baking like a pro just in time to impress your friends and family this holiday season!

Learn:

• How to make Caity’s tried-and-true, from-scratch pie dough

• Baking techniques including rolling pins, crimping, egg washes, and more

• All the components of a good filling

At the end of the class, you’ll have a ready-to-bake apple pie to take home and share with loved ones.

All proceeds support The Nashville Food Project’s work to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. Spots are very limited, so act fast!

**Students will need to bring their own rolling pins.

UPDATE: THIS FORM IS NOW CLOSED AS WE HAVE MAXED OUT OUR CAPACITY!

Join us as we gather to share a meal and celebrate the many hands and hearts that sustain this collective work of community food security!

A delicious lunch will be provided by TNFP’s kitchens with a short program to follow!

This event will take place at our HQ in the Nations. There is street parking along the front and side of the building with limited parking in the small parking lot behind our space. Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All-Gender restrooms available for visitor use. A lactation room is available upon request. The program will be in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

The next installment of our Simmer dinner is here! This chef pop-up series brings chefs, writers and educators together for interactive experiences that take us a bit deeper — to tell the stories behind the food and the people who grow, cook and share it.

This fall, the spotlight is on our Growing Together farm. Sitting on just an acre of land stewarded by farmers from immigrant and refugee backgrounds, the farm provides a space for the farmers and their families to maintain cultural community and grow produce to share across Nashville. October’s Simmer will feature an adventurous multi-course meal from Ryan Bernhardt, chef-owner of local Asian-adjacent eatery TKO and a regular Growing Together customer. Tickets are limited and available for $150 each. This is a 21 and up event.

Funds raised from this dinner help support The Nashville Food Project’s mission of bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city. A portion of all ticket sales are tax deductible.

ABOUT RYAN BERNHARDT

After a 10 year stint at Margot working his way up from line cook to Sous Chef, Ryan set out to open a restaurant of his own. Spending a lifetime eating at Shing-Li’s, a local Chinese food restaurant in Evansville, IN, and seeing the need for accessible, quality Chinese food in his community, he opened TKO in Fall 2016. A restaurant rooted in community, farm partnership, and creativity, TKO offers fine-dining quality food in a casual atmosphere for the average family. When Ryan’s not at TKO, you can find him reading, playing old-lady card games, and perfecting his at-home microwave cooking technique. He loves to explore everything Nashville, as long as it’s on the east side of the river.

Join experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Ira Wallace and Pam Dawling for an afternoon of workshops and a book signing. Pam Dawling will present on Year Round Vegetable Production and Ira Wallace will present on Seedkeeping, Cooperation and Community Building: Everyday Acts of Resistance in Agriculture.

There will be opportunity for Q&A, snacks and refreshments provided by The Nashville Food Project, and a book signing to follow.

Learn more: https://www.tnlocalfood.org/calendar/growing-community-resilience

Workshops:

Seedkeeping, Cooperation and Community Building: Everyday Acts of Resistance in Agriculture by Ira Wallace

Black and brown people are integral as workers in food and agriculture but are largely missing from the stories of cooperative organizing in agriculture, heirloom seeds and seed savers. Be inspired by historic accounts of black cooperative action and learn how tradition, taste, place and storytelling can work to preserve biodiversity and reclaim the place of black and brown people in issues of food sovereignty, farming, heirloom varieties and regional cuisine today.

Year Round Vegetable Production by Pam Dawling

An introduction to strategies and techniques for making year round vegetable production possible. This workshop starts with caring for the soil, which is vital in intensive cropping. Crop rotations, cover crops, compost making and organic mulches are introduced. Direct sowing, transplanting, succession planting and inter-planting are explained. Season Extension in hot weather and cold weather is covered, with various options for crop protection. A cold-hardiness table of winter vegetables is provided to help growers decide which crops to grow.

A growing number of cities are striving to become spaces of welcoming for immigrant and refugee communities, but what is the work of welcoming? What could it looks like for our city’s infrastructure to reflect and cultivate a tangible spirit of belonging for new neighbors? Join us for a facilitated panel discussion.

Featuring local leaders:

Magut Kipkosgei, Community Health Coordinator at Nashville International Center for Empowerment

Katherine Dennis, Ph. D, Community Engagement Manager at Friends of Mill Ridge Park

& Brenda Perez, Community Organizer

Somali chai and light refreshments from The Horn will be provided.

Parking at TNFP’s HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements! The panel will be facilitated in English.

Looking to learn a little more about the mission, vision, and programs of The Nashville Food Project? Join us for a (Virtual) First Taste overview with TNFP’s Director of Community Engagement, Elizabeth Langgle-Martin!

This month we are making it extra easy to tune in by going virtual! At the office? Grab your team and learn more about community food security work happening in Nashville together!

Register below to receive an email reminder and Zoom prior to the event! Don’t forget to add a question(s) you have about TNFP!

Join us for a free family festival at The Community Farm at Mill Ridge in Antioch THIS SATURDAY! The Community Farm is stewarded by The Nashville Food Project and is the site of around 80 families from the Antioch community accessing public land and growing food organically in both individual and communal plots. The Community Farm is part of Metro's Mill Ridge Park. The Community Farm is best found by utilizing the following address and looking for a blue welcome flag: 12944 Old Hickory Blvd, Antioch, 37013.

On September 9th (from 11 AM-2 PM), we are coming together to celebrate Welcoming Week and the rich community fostered through shared spaces. Through Welcoming Week, organizations and communities (across the world) bring together neighbors of all backgrounds to build strong connections and affirm the importance of welcoming and inclusive places in achieving collective prosperity.

Time Specific Offerings:

11:00 AM: Farm Opens and Guided Hike Departure with Friends of Mill Ridge

11:15 AM: NPL's Puppet Truck Performance of Thomas and the Library Lady

12:00 PM: Wunpawng Sumpyi Musical Performance

12:30 PM: Gathering To Eat*

Other happenings:

Community Mural Installation with Sarah Byrd Humphreys

Lino-print Art Creation via Turnip Green Creative Reuse

Bounce House & Kids' Activities

Land History Engagements with Stories of the Land

Pollinator Exploration with The Honey Collective

*Bring a dish to share (if you are able) and come join us!

No RSVP is necessary, but we hope you bring a friend or two!

This event is sponsored through the generous support of Transcore.

Join us for a facilitated conversation showcasing the varied ways folks in Middle TN are reimagining our relationship with the earth and the land we steward.

Panelists will include: Reginald Marshall of Reggie’s Veggies, Ms. Pearl of Brooklyn Heights Community Garden, Kristina Villa of The Farmers Land Trust, and R’Yana Michele of Water Bear Cooperative Land Project!

We will have some charcuterie/grazing boards to share!

Parking at TNFP’s HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements! The panel will be facilitated in English.

Please RSVP below to let us know you’re coming! We’ll email out a reminder the week of!

Looking to learn a little more about the mission, vision, and programs of The Nashville Food Project? Join us for a (Virtual) First Taste overview with TNFP’s Director of Community Engagement, Elizabeth Langgle-Martin!

This month we are making it extra easy to tune in by going virtual! At the office? Grab your team and learn more about community food security work happening in Nashville together!

Register below to receive an email reminder and Zoom prior to the event! Don’t forget to add a question(s) you have about TNFP!

Looking to learn a little more about the mission, vision, and programs of The Nashville Food Project? Join us for a First Taste overview with TNFP’s Director of Community Engagement, Elizabeth Langgle-Martin!

Swim lessons, summer camps, and BBQs filling up your summer schedule? This month we are making it extra easy to learn more by going virtual! At the office? Grab your team and learn more about community food security work happening in Nashville!

Register below to receive an email reminder and Zoom prior to the event! Don’t forget to add a question(s) you have about TNFP!

Join The Nashville Food Project to learn more about the work we do in our community. Whether you're new to our organization, a more seasoned volunteer, or a program participant, there's something for you to learn about the big picture of our vision and how we work towards it each day. In addition to a short presentation and Q&A, we'll have some light refreshments to share.

Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All Gender restrooms available for visitor use. Currently, First Taste sessions are facilitated in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

Join The Nashville Food Project to learn more about the work we do in our community. Whether you're new to our organization, a more seasoned volunteer, or a program participant, there's something for you to learn about the big picture of our vision and how we work towards it each day. In addition to a short presentation and Q&A, we'll have coffee and some pastries to accompany our conversation.

Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All Gender restrooms available for visitor use. Currently, First Taste sessions are facilitated in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

Join The Nashville Food Project to learn more about the work we do in our community. Whether you're new to our organization, a more seasoned volunteer, or a program participant, there's something for you to learn about the big picture of our vision and how we work towards it each day. In addition to a short presentation and Q&A, we'll have coffee and some pastries to accompany our conversation.

Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All Gender restrooms available for visitor use. Currently, First Taste sessions are facilitated in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

Join us for the first installment of our Simmer series in 2023! This chef pop-up series brings chefs, writers and educators together for interactive experiences that take us a bit deeper—to tell the stories behind the food and the people who grow, cook and share it.

For this event, we will explore an intertwining of Black women’s stories in food and art. The event will feature an adventurous multi-course meal from Keshia Hay, chef and owner of Sip N Bite, Lokelani Alabanza, owner of Saturated Ice Cream, and our own Chief Culinary Officer Bianca Morton, along with beverage pairings by Rhonda Cammon. Tickets are limited and available for $150 each. This is a 21 and up event.

Funds raised from this dinner help support The Nashville Food Project’s mission of bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city. A portion of all ticket sales are tax deductible.

Stay cozy in the new year and join us on January 26th for an intimate conversation highlighting a look at how some of Nashville's organizing leaders are building people power while challenging and changing systems of oppression.

Featuring local leaders:

Jackie Sims, Executive Director of People’s Alliance for Transit, Housing and Employment (PATHE) Nashville

Judith Clerjeune, Campaigns and Advocacy Director, TIRRC

and

RaCarol Woodard, Regional Organizing Director of Middle TN with The Equity Alliance

Parking at TNFP’s HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements! The panel will be facilitated in English.

We’ll have toasty cups of vegan chili and coconut cornbread from Radical Rabbit to share.

Please RSVP below to let us know you’re coming! We’ll email out a reminder the week of!

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW FILLED- PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR OUR NEXT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION!

Join us on December 1st for an in-person panel conversation about food access struggles in Nashville’s immigrant and refugee communities as well as the rich food cultures and traditions that reflect histories of resilience, resistance, and strength.

Featuring local leaders:

Nadia Rahman, Director of Health at Nashville Immigrant Center for Empowerment

Lydia Yousief, Founder and Director of Elmahaba Center

Arturo Salomon, Operations Coordinator at Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Somali chai and light refreshments from The Horn will be provided.

Parking at TNFP’s HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements! The panel will be facilitated in English.

Our Founder, Tallu Quinn, loved a good salad and good conversation!

Please join us in her honor to share food and friendship. This informal gathering will feature delicious salads and the women of our beloved TNFP community. Stay for a minute or for the whole hour.

Let us fill your bowl!

Parking at our HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements!

Join us for Nourish 2022!

Saturday, October 29th

MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY DINING HALL

NOURISH is the annual fundraiser of The Nashville Food Project, bringing together Nashville's most innovative chefs for an evening of delicious food and fine wine. The event includes remarkable silent and live auctions, filled with extraordinary food, wine, and travel experiences. Check back for information about this year’s chefs!

Purchase at the Patrons level and receive two tickets to Nourish and a listing in the event program as a Patron, as well as two tickets to an exclusive Patron’s Party on Thursday, October 6 at Green Door Gourmet.

Also sponsored by

Patrons Party is a special way for us to say thank you to Nourish sponsors and supporters who purchase tickets at the Patrons level.

Join us at Green Door Gourmet on Thursday, October 6 at 6 p.m. for an intimate evening of entertainment and a multi-course dinner prepared by The Nashville Food Project.

Join us as we gather to share a meal and celebrate the many hands and hearts that sustain this collective work of community food security!

A delicious lunch will be provided by our Chef Director with a short program to follow. Additionally, we will be sharing what’s up next for the volunteer program and introduce some exciting new tools to deepen volunteer impact and continue to make it easier for volunteers to connect with the work of growing, cooking, and sharing nourishing food with our Nashville community!

This event will take place at our HQ in the Nations. There is street parking along the front and side of the building with limited parking in the small parking lot behind our space. Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All-Gender restrooms available for visitor use. A lactation room is available upon request. The program will be in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

Join The Nashville Food Project to learn more about the work we do in our community. Whether you're new to our organization, a more seasoned volunteer, or a program participant, there's something for you to learn about the big picture of our vision and how we work towards it each day. In addition to a short presentation and Q&A, we'll have coffee and light refreshments to accompany our conversation.

Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All Gender restrooms available for visitor use. Currently, First Taste sessions are facilitated in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

The Nashville Food Project’s Simmer series is back! This chef pop-up series brings chefs, writers and educators together for interactive experiences that take us a bit deeper—to tell the stories behind the food and the people who grow, cook and share it.

For this event, we will explore the intersection of climate and food with a discussion of and meal inspired by Amanda Little's The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. The event will feature a delicious meal from Chef Philip Krajeck (Rolf and Daughters, Folk) along with beverage pairings. Tickets are limited and available for $150 each. This is a 21 and up event.

Funds raised from this dinner help support The Nashville Food Project’s mission of bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city. A portion of all ticket sales are tax deductible.

About Amanda Little:

Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University and a columnist for Bloomberg, where she writes about the environment, agriculture and innovation. Amanda has a particular fondness for far-flung and hard-to-stomach reporting that takes her to ultradeep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds.

She is the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, which explores how to feed humanity sustainably and equitably in the climate change era. Her recent TED Talk, based on this book, has more than one million views. She also wrote the book Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair With Energy. Amanda has published her reporting and commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, New York Magazine, NewYorker.com and elsewhere. A former columnist for Outside magazine and Grist.org, she is a recipient of the Nautilus Book Award, a Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society for Environmental Journalists, and the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for excellence in environmental journalism.

Amanda has interviewed figures across the political spectrum, from Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton to John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and has appeared on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Amanpour & Co. and CNN with Fareed Zakaria. She is a graduate of Brown University and the founder and director of Kidizenship, a non-partisan youth civics platform for teens and tweens. Amanda has served for a decade on the Board of Trustees at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and kids. Follow her on Twitter @littletrip and Instagram @amandalittletrip.

About Philip Krajeck:

Philip Krajeck opened Rolf & Daughters in Nashville in 2012, blending his European training and uncompromising attention to detail to make plates that are honest and unabashedly full-flavored. Krajeck has that something extra—a knack for pushing ingredients far beyond their average capacity for good. The country is taking notice: since opening, Rolf and Daughters earned “Best New Restaurant” nods from Esquire and Bon Appétit as well as features in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Join The Nashville Food Project to learn more about the work we do in our community. Whether you're new to our organization, a more seasoned volunteer, or a program participant, there's something for you to learn about the big picture of our vision and how we work towards it each day. In addition to a short presentation and Q&A, we'll have coffee and light refreshments to accompany our conversation.

Our Headquarters hosts a ramp on the west side of the building as well as accessible, All Gender restrooms available for visitor use. Currently, First Taste sessions are facilitated in English. If you require accommodations to participate, please let us know in the comment section below as part of your RSVP so arrangements can be made!

Our Founder, Tallu Quinn, loved good salad and good conversation!

Please join us in her honor to share food and conversation. This informal gathering will feature delicious salads and the women of our beloved TNFP community. Stay for a minute or for the whole hour.

Let us fill your bowl!

Parking at our HQ is available along the street and in select spots in the parking area behind the building. Please enter through the front double doors. Visitors to TNFP’s headquarters have access to private, all-gender restrooms and a lactation room is available upon request. A ramp is available for use on the West side of the building for anyone using mobility aids. If you need accommodations to participate, please reach out to elizabeth@thenashvillefoodproject.org prior to the day of the event and we can assist in making arrangements!