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Peppers, okra, squash, zucchini, eggplant! Parsley, basil! The garden is producing some delicious vegetables for the McFerrin Park Community. A big thank you to the group from Gateway Church of Franklin who helped with some much needed weeding and harvesting last weekend. Here are some pictures:

These pictures were taken at the community garden tour last weekend. As you can see, the garden is verdant and luscious!

VEGI is proud to announce that the McFerrin Park Community Garden is a featured garden on a city-wide community garden tour this Saturday June 13, from 9am to 12pm. For more information and a map of the garden sites, please visit http://sites.google.com/site/nashvillecommunitygardentour/
We hope to see you on Saturday!

The Nashville weather has been good to the garden. Plenty of sun and rain in the past few weeks has resulted in a lot of growth!

On Wednesday, VEGI went to Lowe’s on Dickerson Pike and got carloads of plants and fruit trees donated to the garden – a big thank you to Gary at Lowe’s! Groundbreaking is tomorrow 1pm-5pm, rain or shine. Although the forecast for tomorrow predicts some precipitation, the meteorologist at News 2 thinks that “we might get a break on Saturday.” So come out and garden!

We are getting excited for groundbreaking day this Saturday, May 2nd, 1-5pm! In preparation, several students and community members laid down the first of the planters last weekend. Although we had hoped to use new wood, it proved to be quite expensive, so we quickly shifted to plan B – recycling! As VEGI grows, we hope to improve the quality of wood used so that the garden will last for years to come.

We hope you can join us for groundbreaking this Saturday! Here are some pictures from last weekend:

This weekend “looks to be perfect for gardening” (NBC local news)

Come out and help lay planters, use a hack saw, and a sledgehammer,
THIS SATURDAY APRIL 25th
Help prepare the garden for the groundbreaking the following weekend

If you want to come by, even for just an hour or two, email Benjamin Dean (benjamin.j.dean@vanderbilt.edu) for more details

Thanks for helping us all grow together

Work Day!

We are very excited to share our initial progress with the McFerrin Park Community Garden! This picture from March 31st shows the leftover plots from last year’s garden:

We presented our plans to the McFerrin Park Neighborhood Association on April 2nd. The following weekend, community members worked with VEGI to complete some important work: removing dangerous metal embedded in concrete (from an old playground structure), removing the old planters, and tilling the land.

As you can see, we now have a wonderful, flat, clear piece of land for the garden! Our next step is to stake out the planters (see “plans” page). We hope to have the planters mostly built by groundbreaking day on May 2nd, so that plants can be planted! Stay tuned for more updates.