Sowing Seeds of Hope

Meals 4 Health and Healing Giving Garden

The Giving Garden is critical to our mission and not only serves as a vital source for fresh herbs and vegetables, but we use it to educate teens and adults about whole foods and the importance of organic vegetables. The Teen Summer Camp program involves garden time for nutrition education and enrichment. During the school year, adult and teen volunteers help the gardener maintain the space and tend the garden.

Garden Chat Articles

Winter Sowing

Container Gardening, Part 1

Container Gardening, Part 2

Seed Starting

Garden Zones, Seedlings, and Frost

Fall Gardening

Garden Chat with Garden Manager, Missy and Nutrition Educator, Lexy

The first video in our garden video series, Garden Chat! Join Garden Manager Missy and Nutrition Educator Lexy as they introduce you to the Giving Garden and discuss the benefits of the versatile and ubiquitous Southern delight - tomatoes.

Thanks to Slow Food of Middle Tennessee for their support in funding this series!

Pruning Tomatoes

Did you know you needed to prune tomatoes? Garden Manager, Missy shows us how and why it is important.

Thanks to Slow Food of Middle Tennessee for their support in funding this series!

Growing Basil

Lets talk about growing basil in the garden!

Thanks to Slow Food of Middle Tennessee for their support in funding this series!

Butternut Squash

Join Garden Manager Missy and Lexy as they talk about the benefits of growing butternut squash.

Thanks to Slow Food of Middle Tennessee for their support in funding this series!

We Grow

We literally move from seeds in our organic Giving Garden to seeds of hope through our nutrient-dense meals that offer profound support and hope to people facing cancer. Working in our own garden, we grow quality, organic vegetables and herbs for use in our meals and share the value of organic gardening. We also have a growing, valuable network of area gardens, producers, farms, and markets who provide us wonderful in-kind donations of organic foods to supplement what we grow and purchase.