Linked by Michael LevenstonFrom the pollinator patches to the duck pond to the orchards and the vegetable beds, Trevecca Urban Farm leverages natural systems and ingenuity to maximize space, reduce waste, and create a sustainable environment. By Carrington FoxFocusJUL 16, 2026Excerpt:While Trevecca Nazarene University has been educating students in Nashville for 125 years, the Murfreesboro Pike campus is not yet what you’d call a “century farm.” That venerable designation is reserved for farms that have been operating continuously for 100 years, and Trevecca Urban Farm — a four-acre section of the 80-acre campus — has been farming only since 2011. But when farm director Jason Adkins and his team of urban agriculturalists applied for USDA certification on their organic and sustainable plot, they earned farm status for the whole college. Share this post: on Twitter on Facebook on LinkedIn