Local organizations — including the Nashville Food Project, The Store, Brooklyn Heights Community Garden, Tennessee Local Food Summit, Porter Road Grocery, Nashville Community Garden Coalition, and the Metro Nashville Human Relations Commission — came together to understand how people access and experience food in Nashville.
As we head into the holiday season, many of us are looking forward to some delicious traditional dishes. But inflation means that preparing those meals could be significantly more expensive.
To learn more about how this issue is impacting our communities, we are joined by local resident, farmer and restaurant owner. Then, we’ll hear from the leaders of local nonprofits and a pediatrician about what resources are out there and what groups are especially vulnerable to food insecurity.
But first, WPLN senior music reporter Jewly Hight tells us all about WNXP’s Artist of the Month for November — Jessy Wilson.
Guests:
- Jewly Hight, WPLN senior music reporter
- Angel Holt, North Nashville resident who has lived with food insecurity since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Reggie Marshall, farmer and owner of Reggie’s Veggies
- Seema Prasad, owner of Miel
- C.J. Sentell, CEO of the Nashville Food Project
- Eden Murrie, CEO of Operation Stand Down Tennessee and a retired Air Force brigadier general
- Dr. Cristin Fritz, assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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- Without Enough Volunteers, Nashville Food Pantries Struggle To Meet Increased Demand
- Why Middle Tennessee Hospitals And Clinics Are Doubling As Food Pantries
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