The Nashville Food Project

🌟Thank you for making 2024 truly unforgettable🌟 Your generosity, time, and energy have helped us grow, cook, and share more nourishing meals across Nashville than ever before. Together, we’ve made an incredible impact, and we’re so grateful for your dedication to The Nashville Food Project. As we look to 2025, we’re excited to expand our urban agriculture program, recover more food to craft nourishing meals, welcome more neighbors to the table, and foster a healthier, stronger community. None of this is possible without YOU. Every gift, every hour, and every act of love brings us closer to a Nashville where everyone has access to the food they want and need. As you consider your year-end giving, we hope you’ll support our mission to grow, cook, and share nourishing food. Together, let’s make 2025 our brightest year yet. Donate today: https://lnkd.in/gTmRywjU

Food connects us, nourishes us, and strengthens our community. In North Nashville, where access to fresh food is limited, The Nashville Food Project plays a vital role in the Heart of Nashville program to improve health outcomes. Through nutritious, heart-healthy meals and education, we’re addressing issues like uncontrolled hypertension while supporting wraparound care in partnership with NashvilleHealth and Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center. Check out the video and join us as we grow, cook, and share nourishing food—because everyone deserves access to the nourishment they need. Together, we’re building a community where everyone has a seat at the table.

Twice a week, our delivery truck arrives at Begin Anew of Middle Tennessee filled with meals to nourish adult learners before their evening English classes. The impact is twofold: while a nourished body can improve focus and learning, a shared meal is an invitation to build community across language and cultural barriers. Your gift this #GivingTuesday creates more of these life-changing moments around tables, and supports the work of other poverty-disrupting organizations by providing food for their program participants. Donate: https://lnkd.in/efKnKCCn

This #GivingTuesday, our $20,000 goal supports a future where everyone has a place at the table. In 2024, we have shared over 330,000 meals with: 🥕 People pursuing housing security, financial stability, and English literacy 🥕 Families going through health challenges and major transitions 🥕 School-aged children, often providing their last meal of the day at after-care programs Your gift today helps us to continue to nourish these groups and so many more in our community, in body and spirit. https://lnkd.in/efKnKCCn

We're #hiring a new Grants Manager: a detail-oriented, dedicated individual who oversees the grant research, application and management process. Apply today or share this post with your network!

Last year, we grew over 9,500 pounds of produce at the Community Farm at Mill Ridge to share with volunteers, community gardeners, and food access partners. Unfortunately, we also had a pest problem last year, and we lost a few hundred pounds of produce that did not require refrigeration to mice and other hungry critters. One of the farm’s regular volunteers, Brennan, saw this problem firsthand, and referred us to apply for a grant through his company, Messer Construction Co., to support infrastructure at Mill Ridge. This fall, thanks to Messer, we will begin work on a temperature-controlled dry storage facility at the farm. This will provide much-needed additional capacity for storing food like tomatoes, garlic, potatoes, and winter squash — and help us limit waste by shielding it against pests! Thanks, Messer Construction Co.!

We're so grateful to have the support of the Buckingham Foundation!

The next installment of our #FutureOfFood conversation series, hosted in partnership with FeedBack Nashville and Tennessee Local Food, is August 29! We're discussing how our agricultural practices can improve the health and biodiversity of our ecosystems and waterways alongside speakers from Harpeth Conservancy, Cumberland River Compact, and NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF TENNESSEE. Register to join us: https://lnkd.in/dptG_fJa

I loved reading about the awesome nonprofit collaboration between WATER WALKERS and The Nashville Food Project. Thanks to our Nashville-based team at Jackson for helping us get connected and support this impactful work.

We are deeply grateful for Jackson’s sustaining support for our work!