In March 2023, after over a year of relationship-building and engagement with community gardens and institutional partners, the Nashville Community Garden Coalition elected a Steering Committee to lead the coalition's efforts. In this presentation, members of the Steering Committee will share about the coalition's evolving mission, vision, and values, our approach to food justice, and how we're wrestling with topics ranging from democratic decision-making to organizational structure and beyond in our work to mobilize the potential that community gardens offer for food production, land access, and grassroots organizing for systemic change.

Adria Osborne and Arianna Nimmocks of The Nashville Food Project, Cecelie Elise of Society of Saint Andrew.