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Urban Farm

The Trevecca Urban Farm was inspired as a teaching tool to equip students to help food-insecure neighborhoods around the world. In the heart of Nashville, livestock guardian dogs oversee our heritage goats, pigs, ducks and chickens as they graze Trevecca’s campus and lots nearby. With a worm farm, campus composting, beekeeping, urban orchard, greenhouse and vegetable gardens, the Urban Farm is able to produce abundantly within view of Nashville’s skyscrapers.

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Caring for the earth and growing food in the heart of Nashville.

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An environmental program

We recognize that nothing impacts the created world and its inhabitants like farming–still the livelihood of half the world’s workers. As Wendell Berry reminds us, “How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world will be used.” Good farming can save the planet. We teach and practice community-centered organic agriculture that heals the land and the communities that depend on it.

A justice program

We recognize that the gifts of the land and environmental burdens are not shared equitably. The world’s poorest communities face the greatest threats to chemical exposure, dumping, flooding, displacement, and inadequate food access. Our task is to work as neighbors with neighbors to foster the healing of our place.

About creation care

Learn from Trevecca Urban Farm director Jason Adkins as he discusses what it means to be the image of God as we care for creation in the videos below.

TreeCycle

Thanks to a $50,000 grant from Nashville Metro Public Health Department’s Community Partnership Fund, we've created TreeCycle—a program in which area youth will bike throughout the Napier and Sudekum neighborhoods and plant trees. TreeCycle works to fight back against food insecurity and economic factors that make it difficult for Trevecca’s neighbors to access healthy, nutritious foods. Learn more here or watch this feature story from News Channel 5.

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Related Majors

Although the principles of sustainability, justice and environmental stewardship can be implemented in many career fields, the degrees below are especially compatible with the values and mission of the Urban Farm.

The Bachelor of Science in civic engagement and restorative justice equips students with a solid foundation for helping the oppressed and marginalized find spiritual, physical and community restoration in the fields of law, government and civic society. Students will learn to assess complex social systems and injustices to inform creative solutions for just communities, laws, legislation and government.

A Bachelor of Science in nonprofit administration and social entrepreneurship prepares students with knowledge and skills to help the oppressed and marginalized find spiritual, physical and community restoration through nonprofits, faith-based ministries or social enterprises. Students become equipped to assess complex social issues affecting individuals, families,communities and marginalized people groups to inform creative solutions for poverty alleviation.

Our supporters

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Aetna
MDHA
TN_Nursery

Additional supporters include:

  • Bridgestone
  • Cumberland River Compact/Root Nashville
  • Cigna
  • USDA

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Want to help support the Urban Farm? Click here to donate. Under the designation field, select "Other Designation" and write in "Urban Farm." We appreciate your support!

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You can support the work of the Trevecca Urban Farm by volunteering with us or by purchasing our products. To learn more about volunteering, email us.

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*An Authorization and Release Form must be filled out for all minors that participate in Urban Farm activities.