The Greenway Table
Date Added: 2009The Greenway Table aspires to be a resource of food education for Cleveland and Bradley County. Using educational gardens following sustainable agriculture practices, The Greenway Table is working to provide:
- 1. Resource for teachers: curriculum enhancement, nutritional awareness and social interaction
- 2. Space for service learning: colleges and schools, youth groups and public clubs
- 3. Avenue for increased food security: half of the food will be given away, The Caring Place
- 4. Place of community cohesion: cross-racial, cross-class and cross-generational interaction
- 5. Atmosphere of sustainable awareness: reduction, reusing, recycling, the importance of farmers and our dollar
Sustainable agriculture is economically viable, socially just and environmentally enhancing for the community in which it exists.
Agriculture and Education
Student to Garden
- Exciting atmosphere for experiential learning in an array of subjects
- Curriculum enriched with tangible lessons that stimulate multiple senses
- Students have a heightened interest in learning and are excited about science
- Healthy eating is encouraged
- Foods grown by students have shown to be enjoyed by students (!)
- Environmental awareness is intermingled with education and not a catchphrase
- Material understanding of food and its origin
- Social skills are enhanced
Community to Garden
- Healthy eating and family dinners are encouraged
- Workshops provide useful training
- Well-being of involved increases with collaborative labor and resulting harvest
- Better understanding of food’s value in healthy lives and communities
Student and Community
- Cross-generational communication
- Neighborly relationships established
- Barriers of all sort relent amidst food production and consumption
- Creation and appreciation of an aesthetically enjoyable outdoor space
Past and Future
- Highlighted evaluation of the farmer's role in Bradley County, Tennessee and American history- from Thomas Jefferson & soil to Victory Gardens and the TN Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.
- Highlighted evaluation of technology’s historical role in helping farms feed people
- Highlighted evaluation of farmland and farmer loss and its impact on our food culture and assembly
- Increased awareness of current environmental issues associated with agriculture
- Personalized understanding of food’s value in viable systems
- Contribution to a national movement
- Expressed action in repaving road for locally established food security
Contact:
Jennifer Norton, Executive Director
315 20th Street
PO Box 5382
Cleveland TN 37320-5382
Phone: (423) 505.4696
Fax: No Fax
Email:
jnorton@thegreenwaytable.org
Website: www.thegreenwaytable.org
