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News From The Garden

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Happy New Year! We hope your new year is off to a wonderful start. Amidst the freezing temps we have finished planning our garden layout and have opened our CSA sign ups for our 2025 growing season. We would love to have you with us this year. Each week members of our CSA drop by the Center to pick up either a half or full share of everything we grow. We make sure to pack our shares full of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers as available. We also include recipes that use the ingredients in your box each week so you have some inspiration and guidance on what to do with your box. Not only is this one of the best ways to support our residents, but it's a cost effective way to eat organically and locally grown food that you have 100% assurance on knowing how and where it was grown. We will be giving customers 10% off for signing up with us throughout the month of January. If you cannot join us this year but know someone who might be interested please help us spread the word. For more information or to sign up, please click here.


Our seed starting supplies have started arriving and on days warm enough to be in the greenhouse, we have started preparing our soil mix for seed starting and gathering all we will need to start planting the hundreds of plants we start from seed. Seeds we start this month include bachelor buttons, cosmos, and onions. We are growing all the staples and continue to add more and more flowers each year. This year we are sectioning off part of the garden for resident and Chef Connie use. We polled residents and Chef Connie on things they would love to snack on or use in meals and will plant an area that is fully dedicated to those items. We also hope to continue using produce we grow in larger ways for our daily snack and cooking classes.


When it is too cold to work outside we have been expanded our garden knowledge through garden lessons. We have talked about biodiversity, organic vs. non organic food, soil conservation, environmental stewardship, and look forward to hosting some guest speakers that will be covering topics like, local food and agriculture systems in middle TN, composting, kombucha making, floral design, beekeeping and more. As Spring approaches we will have lots of opportunities for volunteering. If you are interested in volunteer opportunities of would like more information please email Libby@centerforlivingandlearning.com







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