At Little Seed Farm we're committed to becoming a more actively anti-racist company. Standing against racism is something we've always believed in, but until last year we didn't say or show it, and we failed to recognize the harm that inaction helps perpetuate. 

 

Over the past year we've made progress on our action plan from last year and we're more focused than ever on continuing that progress this year and in the years to come. 

 

This year we are excited to honor and celebrate Juneteenth by partnering with two Nashville-based, Black-owned organizations.  Today we're excited to introduce you to one of the organizations we're partnering with this year: 

 

Trap Garden is a social enterprise and 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in Nashville, Tennessee by Robert "Rob Veggies" Horton. They provide a sustainable source of healthy, high quality foods and offers innovative solutions to the physical, financial, and educational shortcomings in food insecure communities.  

 

Rob's motivation as an urban farmer and community health activist stem from his own experiences growing up in a St. Louis, Missouri neighborhood with few fresh, health food items. After relocating to Nashville to attend Tennessee State University, Rob was frustrated with having to drive miles away from his home for a grocery store that supplied quality fresh products. So, in February 2014 Rob decided to stop complaining and help alleviate the problem by joining his Alma Mater's Community Garden and Trap Garden was born.

 

 

Trap Garden's mission is to help build, sustain, and empower low-income communities by assisting in the creation of community gardens and the promotion of healthy eating. Rob, with the help of his team and volunteers, create gardens in unlikely places that foster opportunities for community engagement, education, and support, as well as economic empowerment, by returning the community and its resources to the people.

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