Nashville Food Project Essay

Volunteering with the Nashville Food Project has been a great experience. This service-learning project has given me an opportunity to contribute to the Nashville community. This experience impacted me and even taught me new things that I added to my lifestyle.
This service-learning project benefitted the community in many different many. To start, the Nashville Food Project is a great organization that genuinely cares about the city. They have created a smart system where that all starts in the garden then goes to the kitchen and ends with meal delivery. Working in the garden and helping save the Hibiscus sabdariffa plant that supplied so many people’s meals was a great experience. It was amazing how just one plant could make so many different meals. All those meals would go a very long way for many people. Even just by composting, this helped create future rich soil so planting would be more organic. Meal prepping was very beneficial to the community as well because it not only gave people food but also gave people the right amount of healthy food. Making healthy meals allowed people in the community to eat healthy and be more nutritious while spreading knowledge how too.

It made me more aware of what goes in the city I call home. Being able to help prepare meals for the community was great but being able to prepare the community healthy and nutritious meals was even better. I really value eating healthy and using organic foods especially after this semester learning about it. It definitely influences my every decision when it comes to choosing grocery shopping and choosing my everyday meals. I am hoping by meal preparing the right foods, it would make the people receiving them more conscious. It made me more conscious and had impact on me. Hopefully they will see that the healthier food not only tastes better but also makes you feel