Aquaponics & urban farm tour at Trevecca

Last Saturday a few of us enjoyed an enlightening tour of Trevecca's urban farm.
Jason Adkins, Environmental Projects Coordinator, generously spent time showing us their aquaponics system, greenhouse (and brilliant soil blocker system for starting seeds), chicken farm, biodiesel production site, unusual fruit plantings around campus, bike-powered grain mill, and solar food dehydrator made from reused scraps and an old refrigerator. 
Good stuff going on there! Next time, you won't wanna miss it!

GrowFest: Home growin’ kickoff celebration, seed swap, and community discussion

Saturday February 23^rd, 1-4pm

East Nashville Cooperative at 807 Main Street, Nashville, 37206

Inside the Cooperative and in the Garden

Family-friendly

This is a gathering made for sharing!

Please join us and bring one (or more) of these:

• a homemade finger-food to share
• seeds to swap
• a photo or drawing of your garden, garden plans, or favorite/unique garden space (or potential garden space!) around town

Join the ENCM garden crew and local organizations as we share resources and inspiration to help you grow. At ENCM, we love plants, and we want to help you grow them!

We will have information about…

·    ENCM’s 2013 garden programs & how you can get involved

·    How you can be a part of our Peace Garden program

·    How you can sell what you grow

·    Opportunities to volunteer at or support local farms and food organizations

·    Community organizations supporting gardens and local food

And…

·    ENCM garden tours and Q & A time

·    Demonstrations in the garden using unique tools & techniques

·    Seed swap (bring yours if you’ve got them please!)

·    A community discussion circle at 2:00 p.m.: What is your vision of Nashville’s backyard food culture? How can we create a network of home gardens that feed us while creating community? What are your ideas about how we can share resources & ideas to create a vibrant part of Nashville's food system?

We’d like volunteers to help set up & decorate, bring finger foods, help organizations set up and break down, and clean up afterwards.

And we’d love a donation of compostable cups and napkins.

Questions or ideas: Hilary 615.601.2790, hilary@encm.org.

To volunteer or donate, contact Hilary or Eric at info@encm.org.

Biodynamics Study Group February 16 at ENCM

Starting Saturday, February 16th (10am-12pm), monthly: Biodynamics Study Group. We'll discuss Biodynamics and stir garden preparations together so everyone can take some home. Bring an empty jug/container with a lid if you'd like to take some with you.
Everyone welcome, we'll appreciate a newcomer's fresh insight as well as the experienced practitioner's advice. Inside the Cooperative or outside if the weather's nice.

We'll start with this free online course: http://www.oregonbd.org/Class/class.htm
Please read the [1. Intro] section before our gathering.

Info about Biodynamics :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture
https://www.biodynamics.com/biodynamics.html

ENCM's seed start list

Oh, it's gonna be good! Can't wait to taste these!
Just ordered our first wave of seeds from Sow True Seed in Asheville NC.
We'll be inviting you all to come down and plant starts with us early February.

Celery	Tall Utah
Leek	American Flag
Onion	Long White Bunching
Onion	Tropeana Tonda
Onion	Dorata di Parma
Winter Squash	Tahitian Butternut
Asparagus	Mary Washington
Pepper	Corno Do Torro Rosso
Pepper	Purple Beauty
Pepper	Tangerine Pimento
Tomato	Chadwick Cherry
Tomato	Black from Tula
Tomato	Hillbilly
Tomato	Green Zebra
Cucumber	Suyo Long
Cucumber	Arkansas Little Leaf
Cucumber	Bush Pickle
Cucumber	Richmond Green Apple

Aquaponics Tour at Trevecca February 2

We are grateful that the sustainable agriculture pioneers at Trevecca have agreed to show us what they're doing on campus. Please join us for a tour of their aquaponics system.

Saturday, February 2, 3:30 p.m. (after the Main Street Cooperative Garden Tour)

Meet at the ENCM side parking lot at 3 p.m. to carpool, or meet us there at 3:30 p.m.

Park in parking lot labeled 6 against the building 14.  That's where the greenhouse is.  

Trevecca's address is 333 Murfreesboro Rd, 37210.

http://www.trevecca.edu/campus-map/