Nashville Foodscapes Workshop

Join AIA Middle TN Emerging Professional and COTE committees for a fun afternoon of networking and learning! We are partnering with Nashville Foodscapes for a workshop in Centennial Park, where we will learn more about small-scale food production, landscaping, and urban gardening.

Bring your own pot! This is a hands-on workshop, and all participants will leave with a potted plant of their own. Basic black plastic pots will be provided, but feel free to bring your own decorative pot.

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Happy Hour to follow at The Local, sponsored by Sierra Pacific Windows.

This event is open to all AIA Middle TN members.

About Nashville Foodscapes:

Jeremy Lekich was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee by two hippy parents who fostered a sense of reverence in him for the more-than-human ecosystem. He received a Bachelor of Science from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina and majored in biology, where he focused on plants and systems design. During this time, he also got a Permaculture Design Certificate and, more importantly, he was introduced to the magic of the forest and all of the wondrous wild edible and medicinal plants that are our neighbors.

In 2010, Jeremy founded Nashville Foodscapes, and in 2014, Jeremy co-founded Compost Nashville. As of January 2021, Nashville Foodscapes became a worker-owned cooperative. Jeremy's journey as an entrepreneur has allowed him to witness the value of leveraging our current systems and capital to create new ones that are more equitable and harmonious. He is a community resilience enthusiast and believes in the power of a localized economy and an inspired, well-fed community.

Nashville Foodscapes is a full-service design/build foodscaping company. Our mission is Fostering Kindness and Abundance for All (Human & More-Than-Human) Through Creating & Maintaining Edible and Ecological Landscapes and Gardens. As a worker-owned cooperative, we practice ethics-driven and abundant relationships to food, land, and labor. We strive to honor the past, improve the present, and embrace our responsibility to the future.

Compost Nashville is a food waste pick-up service for residential and commercial customers. We take our clients' food scraps, turn them into soil, and give them finished compost in return.