Growing
BeAutiful Community
in The GARDEN
Brooklyn Heights
Community Garden
cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
the rooted table
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Honor The LAnd
Nurture People
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Neighorhood Foodshare Program
Our 2025 growing season has ended! We partnered with Second Harvest to share fresh food from our garden with our neighbors at NO COST to them. Signups will reopen in the spring of 2026.
Who CAN SIGN UP?
We are dedicated to serving our neighbors in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in North Nashville, just below Haynes Middle School. If you reside in 37207 between Liberia St and Baptist World Center Drive (east-west) and Trinity Lane and Seminary Street (north-south) you are eligible!
What's included?
Twice a month, households will receive a bundle of whatever is ripe and ready in our garden - some things produce all season, some things for shorter windows. This year we're growing all types of greens (lettuce, spinach, collards and kale), broccoli, carrots, scallions, root veggies, tomatoes, melons, and more! Foodshares will be harvested and delivered on a rotating basis to make sure the freshest produce ends up on your doorstep!
How Is It Free?
Thanks to a generous grant received by our partners at Second Harvest of Middle TN, we are able to share fresh, local food directly with our neighborhood at no cost to them. Any income bracket, any size household - the only requirement is that you live in our geographic neighborhood since our deliveries are often done by volunteers on foot.
SNAP BENEFITS
In response to SNAP benefits being impacted we are exploring extended ways we can offer fresh produce to our immediate neighbors through our market stand. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter for updates.
Meet Ms. PeArl,
Founder & COMMUNITY HEALER
Nella 'Ms. Pearl' Frierson has always been able to take a little and create plenty. She is the mother of 5 daughters and Granny to 6 beloved grandkids and babies. In 1998, she moved her family from JC Napier Homes to the Scruggs Brooklyn Heights Community to embrace a healthier lifestyle.
Ms. Pearl has held the vision of the garden for over 12 years. After a neighborhood tragedy, she saw deep need in her community: to rediscover the connection between elders and young people; to rebuild and reconstruct self-awareness and self-love; and to remember the importance of playing in the dirt at any age. By hosting shoe sales and fish fries, Ms. Pearl purchased two lots which were empty at the time and began to garden on them. She invited others and over the years, the garden has transformed as much as the people who spent time there.
In addition to her work as farmer, founder, mother, grandmother, and mama, Ms. Pearl is a certified reflexologist, permaculturist, cosmetologist & Montessori educator; a member of the Shackled Feet dance company, an author, a comedian, a poet, and infinitely more. Her mantra is "Start where you are, use what you have, do what you must - just get busy!!!" - and she will always leave the light on for you.
Ms. Pearl is a regular fixture on discussion panels about sustainability & regenerative agriculture. She is a Nashville go-to to discuss local food & community-building, appearing on local news & NPR stations and regularly featured in print publications.
If you are interested in having Ms. Pearl speak to your student group or organization, please reach out to us at office@brooklynheightscommunitygarden.org.
Ms. Pearl at BHCG filming a promotional video with the USDA and Natural Conservation Services. You can follow Ms. Pearl on TikTok @MsPearlsGarden
