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Nashville Gardens, TN Community Farms, & Local Produce

farmers market vegetables & fruit
Fresh produce at the Nashville's Farmers' Market

Welcome to BlueShoe's Guide to Nashville Gardens, featuring websites dedicated to urban gardening in Nashville, community supported and sustainable agriculture, organic farming, the slow food movement, and other green and hopeful happenings here in Music City.

Feb. 3, 2008:We've long supported and loved the Nashville Farmers' Market and we're delighted to discover the burgeoning interest in community supported agriculture (CSA). We've begun a collection of some of the useful websites about sustainable gardening in Nashville and Tennessee. We're also pleased to announce that the TN Organics Farmers' Association will hold their 4th Annual Conference here in Nashville on March 15 at TSU.

Websites on Nashville Gardening, Community Supported Agriculture, and Organic Farming

Grow Nashville: Community Gardens

Local Harvest: Real Food, Real Farmers, Real Community: about CSA's (community-supported agriculture) in Nashville

Nashville Urban Harvest: community group working to build a sustainable food system in Nashville. Current projects include an urban community farm in West Nashville, a Buy Local Campaign, and an organization of local farmers’ markets that help support local farmers and producers.

Slow Food Nashville: promotes and celebrates the bounty of Middle Tennessee farms and traditional local cooking.

Tennessee Organic Farmers Association: The TN Organic Farmers 4th Annual Conference will be held March 15th, 2008 on the campus of Tennessee State University. Keynote speaker is Eliot Coleman, expert organic grower, author, and advocate for organic and sustainable farming practices. He is known throughout the world for his cold weather growing techniques and direct marketing expertise. His presentation is entitled "Making a Success of Organic Farming." Coleman will also address this year's theme, "Sustainable Organic Tennessee," by offering inspiration and motivation for growing the sustainable agriculture movement in Tennessee.

More gardening, local food, and farming links:

American Community Garden Association
Earth Matters Network
Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee
Food Routes: Support your community by supporting your community farmer.
Future of Food in Nashville
Garden Rant: a splendid blog about gardening. The four gardeners who keep up this lively site aren't in Tennessee, but the information migrates quite well to our southern climate and sensibility.
Nashville Farmer's Market: the official site. See BlueShoe's tribute to this Nashville institution
Southern Foodways Alliance

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What's happening to family farms ...

. . . since 1935 the U.S. has lost 4.7 million farms. Fewer than 1 million Americans now claim farming as a primary occupation. Read more about American farms and how you can help by buying local. See Food Routes.