Category archives: Community

From Playground to Produce: September Membership Meeting at Bearden United Methodist Church Community Garden Alliance members gathered this month at the Bearden United Methodist Church Community Garden, where Leigh Cheek led the group through a space that was a church playground less than two years ago.  In April, Leigh met…

On Friday, September 18th, the Alliance hosted our first-ever dinner at the Brown Community Garden! Garden bed adopters and their families joined Alliance staff and board members for an evening of good food, good company, and community. An incredible meal was catered by Silver Queen Kitchen, thanks to our friends…

Cultivating Young Mind’s at Inskip Learning Garden  For August’s Knox County Community Gardens and Growers’ Alliance’s membership meeting, members gathered at the Inskip Elementary Learning Garden, led by the Alliance’s Youth Garden Education Program’s (YGEP) Directors, Erica Lisowe and Nick Thompson. The Inskip Learning Garden is the largest youth garden…

On March 16, 2026, Robbie Cook contacted the Knox County Community Gardens and Growers Alliance, on behalf of Central Baptist Church of Fountain City and nine other churches forming the Fountain City Community Garden Ministry, seeking help in launching a community garden. Five months later on the morning of Saturday,…

The Knox County Master Gardeners hosted an Introduction to Vegetable Gardening Class and Interactive Workshop at Payne Avenue Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday, April 18. Alliance CEO Chris Battle opened the class with a moving and insightful introduction, sharing what first sparked his passion for addressing food insecurity in East…

More than three dozen people gathered April 17 to celebrate the opening of the Miller Heritage Community Garden, a new neighborhood growing space rooted in more than a century of family history and community stewardship in Knoxville’s Western Heights area. Located at 1311 Jourolman Avenue, the garden now sits on…