How I learned to garden and farm in Nashville: what the Master Gardener program, TSU's New Farmer Academy and the Groundwork Fellowship are really like.

Your seedlings are about a week old, and they were started indoors under lights. These are quick varieties, ready to cut around thirty days from seed, so you are roughly three weeks from your first salad. They are not quite ready for the garden today, and they should not sit in this little container for long either. Give them about a week to keep growing, a few days to get used to being outside, and then get them into a bed or a bigger pot. Here is the whole plan in four step

People want to know where their food comes from, and there is no shorter answer to that question than a bed in your own backyard. Lettuce is a good place to start, because it is fast, it is forgiving, and you can cut from the same plant for weeks. Lettuce is a cool season crop, so the best time to plant in Nashville would be early fall (Late August - Early October) or spring (March - mid-April) . You can sow straight into the ground through or start seed inside in late August

I have a gardening rhythm I'm trying to break. I get inspired, buy the plants, hold onto enough inspiration to actually get them into the ground, tend to them for a few weeks, then neglect sets in. I watch them from my kitchen window, arms crossed, desperately wanting to go down to the garden, but convinced that if I can't give it three hours, I can't give it anything at all. Does that sound familiar? This past fall, I was so excited to plant collards again. I love fall gard