{"id":4860,"date":"2018-12-18T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:05:53","slug":"hungry-for-vegetables-and-change-in-nashvilles-trap-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/hungry-for-vegetables-and-change-in-nashvilles-trap-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry for Vegetables (and Change) in Nashville\u2019s Trap Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2.jpg 2880w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/feature-photo-2-1024x427.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Horton left his hometown of St. Louis for college believing he was destined for the board room. He enrolled at Tennessee State University in Nashville, a historically black college (HBCU), because of its prestigious health care administration program. Health care was tradition: his grandmother was a nurse and his father worked in supply chain management for hospitals. He planned on becoming a health care CEO as soon as possible after graduation. \u201cI knew everything I had to do to get there,\u201d Rob said.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s twelve years later now, and as he heads to work, the suit and tie remain in the closet. He ditched the path toward the executive suite to till up Trap Garden, a social enterprise that includes a series of community gardens and sustainable living projects bent on improving health outcomes in underserved communities \u2013 or food deserts \u2013 around Nashville. In the neighborhoods where Trap Garden operates, people don\u2019t call him \u2018sir\u2019 or even \u2018Mr. Horton\u2019 &#8211; people know him as Rob Veggies. He wears overalls that taper slim toward a pair of Jordans. A fitted Cardinals cap, bright red and without a smudge, tops his head. He\u2019s an urban farmer, and he\u2019s fly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A focus on prescriptions, not prevention bothered him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnce I was out in the health care world, I realized it wasn\u2019t what I wanted,\u201d the thirty-year-old said. A focus on prescriptions, not prevention bothered him. He wanted to make a difference and soon realized traditional avenues wouldn\u2019t accomplish his goal. Another option had already begun to present itself. He could help people take control of their diets, their food supply, and, therefore, their health, and he wanted the process to be an authentic expression of himself and where he\u2019s from.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4862\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4862\" class=\"wp-image-4862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-5-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Rob Horton works to improve access to health and wellness in underserved communities around Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When he first arrived in Nashville, Rob could tell the neighborhood around his campus\u2014Metro Center\u2014lacked access to fresh and healthy food options, just like in St. Louis where Rob remembered living off the candy and sodas he purchased to and from school as a kid. Apart from his family, the environment didn\u2019t promote health. As he settled into Metro Center as a professional, and began work on an MBA at Belmont College, options hadn\u2019t improved. The only supermarket around served limp lettuce and little else. Desperate for healthy options, he chose to act; he didn\u2019t need a grocery store. He\u2019d grow his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told myself that if I fail, then I\u2019ll just shop at the grocery store,\u201d Rob said. It would prove that providing healthy food to large communities was easier said than done, and \u201cthey\u2019re just doing the best they can, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I told myself that if I fail, then I\u2019ll just shop at the grocery store.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He didn\u2019t fail, but it wasn\u2019t easy. Rob rented a plot in a community garden at his alma mater. Elders taught him how to maneuver a tiller through packed earth. Working the soil didn\u2019t come easy to Rob, who had no previous experience with farming or gardening. The mutual relationship between rainfall and plant growth, for example, had to be learned through error. Rob knew that rain helped plants emerge from seed to sprout to flowering organism. But how quickly tomatoes, squash, and weeds could cover a plot in a wild green mass surprised him When it rained every day for a week during his first season, he figured his plants were being fed and therefore happy. When the skies cleared, he checked in and found a plant matter explosion. A hard week of weeding taught him that gardening required attention, rain and shine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4863\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4863\" class=\"wp-image-4863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horton tends to one of Trap Garden&#8217;s garden projects in South Nashville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From these trials, Trap Garden emerged officially in 2014 as a side project while Rob worked and finished school. Using connections and the skills collected by studying and working in the corporate world, Rob reached out to schools, chefs, and community organizations to begin implementing educational programs that are still employed today.<\/p>\n<p>Community gardens became the core of the Trap Garden mission. There have been as many as five at one time, with locations outside offices and restaurants. Currently, two gardens housed on public school grounds offer all ages a place to raise tomatoes for the table. But for Rob, whose personal mission is to promote healthy lifestyles, the lessons only begin with growing food.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4864\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4864\" class=\"wp-image-4864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horton, who goes by &#8220;Rob Veggies&#8221; in his work for the nonprofit Trap Garden, poses for a portrait in a community garden at the Johnson Alternative Learning Center in South Nashville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, Rob Veggies is just as likely to be found helping a class of elementary school students taste cucumbers or eggplant for the first time as in the garden. By partnering with the Toyota Green Initiative, a brand campaign to promote sustainability in African American communities and HBCUs, Trap Garden became mobile. At music festivals and college football games in the region, Rob shows up to offer advice on eating better, becoming active in communities, and adapting eco-friendly habits. This work fits into Rob\u2019s definition of sustainability\u2014advocating for the long-term health of body, mind, and habitat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4865\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4865\" class=\"wp-image-4865 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-4-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-4-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-4-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horton addresses attendees during an event to raise money and spread awareness of Trap Garden&#8217;s health and wellness efforts around Nashville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rob recognizes that nonprofits with far more resources than Trap Garden also try to improve food deserts with education and opportunities, but he connects at a level that outsiders can\u2019t. Take the name: Trap Garden. People associate the Trap with drug dealing. But for kids in underserved neighborhoods, it\u2019s what they call home. The Trap, Rob explains, is a place where people learn to hustle and survive. The Trap taught Rob to fight for what\u2019s right. With that mindset, he can approach kids and adults from similar backgrounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Trap, Rob explains, is a place where people learn to hustle and survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the product of a food desert. There\u2019s a disconnect in language and involvement because [most nonprofits are] not with the people,\u201d he said. Rob Veggies is of the people. He\u2019s proof that \u201cyou can have a lasting effect on your community and still look dope and fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sub-photo-1-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Andr\u00e9 Gallant is a writer and photographer based in Athens, Georgia. He is the author of &#8220;A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster,&#8221; publishes and edits the literary farming journal\u00a0Crop Stories,\u00a0and has written for\u00a0Oxford American, Garden and Gun, Modern Farmer, and the Bitter Southerner,\u00a0among many others. Learn more about his work at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andre-gallant.com\/\">www.andre-gallant.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow him on Instagram and Twitter at\u00a0@andrejgallant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Horton left his hometown of St. Louis for college believing he was destined for the board room. He enrolled at Tennessee State University in Nashville, a historically black college (HBCU), because of its prestigious health care administration program. 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