SEEED Edible Forest

The SEEED Edible Forest provides an oasis of free fresh produce the East Knoxville community by cultivating a diverse variety of fruit trees and plants. Our Edible Forest helps supplement the East Knoxville community at the epicenter of a 2-mile radius food desert. SEEED’s Edible Forest is home to 37 fruit trees and 13 raised beds and offers a wide variety of pesticide free, organic fruit trees, vegetable plants, and herbs, all of which are freely available to be harvested by community members. By adding a pollinator habitat, the Edible Forest continues to grow, thrive, and contribute to the restoration of the dwindling population of monarch butterflies. As an educational tool, monarchs are used in teaching biology “on a scale unequaled by any other insect in the world”.

One of our Fruit Trees

SEEED Pollinator Habitat

The SEEED Pollinator Habitat is a collaboration with CEMEX, The King’s Academy, Howell Nurseries, and Native Plants Rescue Squad. CEMEX, the primary sponsor, has achieved Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) Conservation Certification at both their Knoxville Cement Plant and Ready Mix USA facility for their Pollinator Conservation Programs in Knoxville. CEMEX will also assist SEEED’s Pollinator Habitat in securing this certification. Volunteers from SEEED, CEMEX, Ready Mix USA and Howell Nurseries, came together on October 19, 2018 and planted Milkweed and other appropriate foliage for attracting monarch butterflies. The land for the Edible Forest and Pollinator Habitat, is provided courtesy of the Morningside Neighborhood Association.