More Than Just a Girl
More Than Just A Girl is an event designed to honor and highlight women of all walks of life, ages, and abilities. This event is a platform for networking, fellowship, resources, and growth. There will be a women-owned business vendor market, panel sessions, hands-on activities (dancing, yoga, career building), and more, all free of charge!
Wild Ones Spring Native Plant Sale & Expo
A variety of local and regional native plant nurseries will be selling a large selection of plants. To see the list of possible vendors/offerings, click here.
HiLo Market Soft Launch
Soft opening of the new Highland Park Local Market - plant sale, food trucks, coffee booths, vendors, and an opportunity to meet the team!
STEAM Night
Gaining Ground will be tabling at East Lake Elementary’s STEAM Night, an event providing opportunities for students to participate in fun STEAM related activities such as building, technology, art crafts, and hands-on lessons. We will be onsite with a gardening activity!
HiLo Market Soft Launch
Soft opening of the new Highland Park Local Market - plant sale, food trucks, coffee booths, vendors, and an opportunity to meet the team!
MEHP Cooking Club (Closed to Public)
Monthly cooking club for 4th and 5th graders at MEHP.
HiLo Market Soft Launch
Soft opening of the new Highland Park Local Market - plant sale, food trucks, coffee booths, vendors, and an opportunity to meet the team!
HiLo Market Soft Launch
Soft opening of the new Highland Park Local Market - plant sale, food trucks, coffee booths, vendors, and an opportunity to meet the team!
Glass Street Block Party
Party on Glass Street! Food trucks, craft vendors, live music, and games for the kids. Gaining Ground will be onsite tabling with resources and a children’s activity from 10 AM-1 PM. Come say hello!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Journey Health Foundation Research Center Data Summit
Join the first-ever Journey Health Foundation Research Center (JHFRC) Data Summit. This event aims to bring together UTC faculty, students, community partners, and local leaders to explore how data can help us better understand the social and economic conditions shaping our region.
This event will include an introduction to JHFRC’s data hub and dashboard, along with engaging presentations from UTC faculty/staff and community partners highlighting initiatives making a real impact across the Chattanooga region. Register here if interested.
MEHP Cooking Club - Closed to Public
Monthly after school cooking club with fourth and fifth graders at Montessori Elementary at Highland Park. We work with participants on basic cooking skills, recipe literacy, nutrition education, and more!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Winter Urban Ag Roundtable
Sign up for the next urban agriculture roundtable here: to catch up and share about local projects; break into working groups on education, resource sharing, land access/production, and policy; and connect with folks involved in agriculture and gardening projects across Chattanooga to be a part of the development of a collaborative support structure for local ag.
Free to attend - dinner and childcare included!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Howard Culinary Canning Demo - Closed to public
Collaboration between the Howard High Culinary Program and local farmer of Feathers and Fruit, Jessie Gantt-Temple, to learn how to preserve fresh, locally sourced produce. Facilitated by Gaining Ground. Closed to the public.
SeTNYF Annual Meeting/Strategic Planning
The public is invited to a potluck and Southeast TN Young Farmers annual meeting/strategic planning event. After the meeting, there will be education about timing/strategies for pruning blueberries and grape vines and a tour of Wheeler’s Orchard to learn about their orchard/vineyard operation, value-added products ,and on-farm market.
You are welcome to come only for the workshop if you do not wish to participate in the strategic planning session. Here is the timing for each of the sections:
12-2 P.M. Potluck/Strategic Planning
2-4 P.M. Fruit Crop Pruning/Farm Tour
Please reach out to SeTNYF chapter coordinator Emily Dudley at setnyfcoordinator@gmail.com with any questions. Leading up to the event, you will receive an email with the address and last minute info. We hope to see you there!
Chef's Table Cultural Series: Volume 5
Purchase tickets here: “At Chef’s Table, a place is set for the community to come together with local artists and chefs in a unique dinner layout. Each event is a one time only experience to bring together an artist and chef…Guests have the opportunity to view the work of a single artist with a small collective over a beautifully curated meal, with the artist present.”
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Healthy Cooking Class
Join Gaining Ground and Registered Dietician Rebecca Greer at the South Chattanooga Community Center for a free healthy cooking class featuring winter produce! Open to the public. No RSVP required.
Food, Families, and Finance
Gaining Ground is participating in the Chattanooga Area Food Bank’s upcoming Food, Families, and Finance event by providing nutrition education curriculum and education on our Double SNAP program.
Chatt Food Coalition's Quarterly Meeting
This gathering is designed to reconnect, learn from one another, and move toward action. We'll spend time mapping Chattanooga's food system, identifying gaps and opportunities, and launching working groups that will help shape our coalition's priorities in the year ahead. Light lunch provided. Click here to RSVP.
MEHP Cooking Club - Closed to Public
Monthly after school cooking club with fourth and fifth graders at Montessori Elementary at Highland Park. We work with participants on basic cooking skills, recipe literacy, nutrition education, and more!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!
Main Street Farmers Market
The Main Street Farmers Market is Chattanooga’s first producers-only, farmer-run market. Check out their website here to make your shopping list for the week!