Growing Together & Mill Ridge Park

The Shared Landscape di FIELD Network

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This episode explores how a Nashville nonprofit is expanding land access for immigrant, refugee, and beginning farmers through two shared land production sites, one on church property and one in a city park, while navigating the complexities of insecure tenure, intensive staff support, and evolving program design. It focuses on: (1) the dual site land access model: a long standing one acre lease with Christ Lutheran Church that supports five Bhutanese and Burmese or Myanmar farm businesses, and a five year renewable license with the City of Nashville for seven acres at Mill Ridge Park, where two additional farm businesses operate; (2) the program’s origins in community healing and cultural reconnection, where farmers, many from agrarian backgrounds, grow culturally significant crops, build belonging, and sell through CSAs and a new farmer led mar ... 

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