NRCS grant help local university advance urban farm

By Roger RyDell Daniels, NRCS public affairs specialist

Benefitting from a NRCS-Tennessee Urban Agriculture Grant, Trevecca Nazarene University’s Urban Farm has grown from planting small of fruit trees to a full-functional diversified urban farm raising goats, chickens, pigs, bees, fish, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, and trees.

According to Trevecca Nazarene University Professor Jason Adkins, the Urban Farm was created to be a practical and material outreach from Trevecca Nazarene University to the surrounding neighborhood through the environmental justice arm of the J. V. Morsch Center for Social Justice. Adkins founded the urban farm in 2011 to teach youth, students, and community members to take their place in building community food systems that work for everyone.