Cultivating Young Mind’s at Inskip Learning Garden
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…
Fountain City Churches Break Ground on New Community Garden Ministry to Fight Food Insecurity
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,…
Invasive Clearing Volunteer Day at Miller Heritage Community Garden
The Alliance was excited to welcome our friends from the UTK Community Garden Club back for another volunteer workday, this time joined by members of the Alpha Omega Epsilon (AOE) sorority for women in STEM. Led by President Andy Wattanaskolpant and Vice President Drew Hogan, the Community Garden Club has partnered with…
KUB’s Day of Service at the Pastor Richard S. Brown Jr. Community Garden
The Alliance participated in KUB’s Spring Days of Service by hosting a volunteer group at the Brown Community Garden. After finishing their work shifts, KUB employees spent a Tuesday afternoon helping revitalize a section of the garden in the 64 bed area by removing invasive Bermuda grass, adding fresh soil,…
DEDICATION AND GRAND OPENING OF MILLER HERITAGE COMMUNITY GARDEN
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…
East Knoxville Neighbors and Volunteers Gather at Brown Community Garden for Tree Giveaway, Planting Workshop
Community members turned out April 11 at the Pastor Richard S. Brown Jr. Community Garden for an afternoon focused on growing Knoxville’s tree canopy, beautifying neighborhoods and connecting residents with free trees to plant at home. The event, a partnership between the Knox County Community Gardens and Growers’ Alliance (Alliance)…