From near to right: Tiffany Clay (Frayser Resident), Karen King (Frayser Resident), Dr. Claudette Jones Shephard (UTHSC), Dr. Altha Stewart, elder subordinate dean for Community Health Engagement; Daryl Levin (Aquaponics Farms), Camille James (Frayser Community Urban Garden Manager) were among the attendees and speakers astatine the dedication ceremony.The Office of Community Health Engagement successful the College of Medicine astatine the University of Tennessee Health Science Center held a dedication ceremonial earlier this period for a caller motion astatine the Frayser Community Urban Garden.
The Frayser Community Urban Garden launched successful 2021 arsenic a collaboration betwixt the UTHSC College of Medicine and its Board of Visitors advisory council; the Frayser community, Memphis Parks, the City of Memphis, which offered the onshore for the garden; and the University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture to amended entree to free, locally grown, nutritional foods, and to promote healthful eating.
Amongst those who spoke astatine the dedication were Frayser assemblage residents; Altha Stewart, MD, elder subordinate dean for Community Health Engagement and Kelly Sealey, manager for the Office of Community Health Engagement successful the College of Medicine; County Commissioner Charlie Caswell; and Tiara Caswell, enforcement manager of Legacy of Legends CDC. Dr. Stewart shared remarks connected the inception, advancement and aboriginal plans for the plot which see the summation of Camille James, plot manager for the Frayser Community Urban Garden.
“This was not conscionable a solemnisation of the sign, but an acknowledgment of what tin beryllium accomplished by assemblage partners erstwhile they enactment together,” said Dr. Stewart. “With the assistance of these partners and the Frayser community, we present person a functioning governing council, established committees, and a plot manager with extended gardening experience. This is to facilitate the garden’s work, on with assemblage members who are funny successful plots for their group. It was an grant to enactment with each of these individuals for the Frayser community.”
The caller motion was sponsored by the UTHSC College of Medicine’s Board of Visitors. “We are truthful delighted to spouse with our neighbors successful Frayser to found this assemblage garden. It is our anticipation that this volition not lone output nutritious fruits and vegetables, but besides animate steadfast eating arsenic portion of a steadfast lifestyle,” said Scott Strome, MD, enforcement dean of the UTHSC College of Medicine.
The Frayser Community Urban Garden Council is hosting its archetypal cohort of gardening classes successful mentation for the outpouring planting of radical plots successful the garden. The assembly volition statesman offering a gardening fundamentals people to the wide nationalist successful February astatine the Frayser Connect Center and online to those funny in learning much astir location gardening oregon successful being assigned 1 of the more-than-a-dozen assemblage plots disposable to Frayser residents.
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