Grow With Us
Organic gardening education from seed to harvest. Learn how to grow, eat, and preserve food from your own backyard!
Our Programs
Since 2012, Build It Up has offered gardening education and installed over 100 new gardens in East TN. We offer support to backyard gardeners, market gardeners, and school and community gardens. Learn more about what we do by clicking below!
Backyard Gardeners Program
We take 30-40 families through a year of organic gardening education and support. Families recieve plants, seeds, tools, fertilizer and more to help grow healthy, fresh food right in their own backyards!
Market Gardeners Program
We encourage entreprenuership through agriculture and support market gardeners up to a half acre in size. We have a growers coop that sells to restaurants and a multi-farm CSA.
Consulting
Our gardening experts would love to help you design a backyard, community or school garden! We also do food forests, perennial fruit & nut trees, and native edible plants.
Over 150 Families Served
Wish your kids knew where their food comes from? Gardening provides so many opportunities for kids (and adults!) to learn about food, nature, and the joys of dirt under your fingernails! Learn more about our Backyard Gardens Program:
Grow Organic
We teach how to grow organically and in harmony with our ecosystem. Our workshops focus on gardening in ways that prevent pest and disease issues naturally without relying on chemical fertilizers and sprays.
Pounds of Food Grown
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Organic
Families
Our Partners
Appalachian RC&D
BIU is a fiscally sponsored project of Appalachian RC&D. Learn more about their other great programs in the region!
Grow Appalachia
We are one of 21 Grow Appalachia partner sites. Click to learn more about GA and our sister programs.
Latest from the Blog
We try to feature blogs from each of our families 2-3 times a month. Read all about their gardening adventures this season:
Garden Visits Galore!
Garden Visits Galore: A Look Into July Garden VisitsI can’t believe it’s almost August. Time flies when you’re having fun! July was a very busy month for us here at Build It Up. The first half of the month was drought central while the second half of the month has...
Gardener Story: Paula Butcher
Gardener Story: Paula Butcher Over the years I have tried multiple times to grow a vegetable garden. I had no guidance or support system. Everything I tried turned brown or was swallowed by the weeds that I couldn’t keep up with. When I heard about Build It Up, I was...
Gardener Story: Rebecca DeLong
Gardener Story: Rebecca DeLongI have been very excited to go out to the garden every day, to show my children what is growing in the garden and to help them to fall in love with growing something with their own hands and hard work. Since starting this program, I am...