Center for Sustainable Stewardship

PROGRAMS and WORKSHOPS



Future Programming

Food for Families - Cooking with basic ingredients - Leslie Watkins, (sustainable southern cooking, hospitality, home economics, home cooked meals and love, canning,sewing,the family food table-hearth, feetundermytable.com) Massood (chef), Tina Devore (food prep),

Sustainable Farms - Wade (leaves, high tunnel), Daniel (aquaculture), Cliff Davis (animal husbandry)Sustainable Transportation,

Sustainable family finances (use money for goods and services not provided for by community)

Sustainable Homes (home cooked meal in a sustainable structure)

Sustainable Transportation

Sustainable Energy

Sustainable Communities

Sustainable Living - Proper relationship with self; Proper relationship with others, Proper relationship with the land; Providing for your own safety, the base of Maslow’s Pyramid. Gratitude, simplicity and community as key to a less extractive future.

Sustainable Landscaping (andy)

Sustainable Science (STEM in the laboratory of Nature. Greg Smith, )

Sustainable gardening

Sustainable clothes (sewing)



CSS encourages all visitors to come here with an open mind and a desire to learn. Whatever your purpose in visiting, we encourage you to immerse yourself in nature. Be sure to check our calendar to see what events are on our calendar this season. All are welcome!

 
 
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Yoga

Yoga events at the Center for Sustainable Stewardship. may take place at the Fork Inn’s Center Lodge or Lakeside Retreat.

Art

The Center for Sustainable Stewardship has a strong history and tradition of celebrating nature through art. We welcome visual artists of all skill levels—professional and amatuer—to come visit for inspiration.

We are proud to support the Williamson County Cultural Arts Commission and, in particular, the Sustainable Arts Exhibition at the Williamson County Fair.

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Music

Many a musical giant has walked the woods here in Big East Fork Valley searching for inspiration. Some hits you've heard on the radio have roots here, in fact. Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy, Breaky Heart" was produced here. Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" even includes a lyrical nod to Big East Fork. County singer John Hyatt and Steppenwolfg’s John Kay and Mike Utley for Jimmy Buffet’s band lived right across for the farm. All songwriters and musicians are also welcome to use stages for performances or recording. Inquire about availability.

 

Sister Cities of Franklin

Teaching Sustainable Stewardship with Greg Smith: a new course for our adopted Neices and Nephews, daughters and sons of Franklin’s American, European, African, and Asian Sister Cities

The CSS logo of three leaves represents the three pillars of our organization:

Stewardship of the Land -

We protect our watershed, pastures, soil, and forests so we may receive their many blessings.

We do unto downstream as we would have upstream do unto us.

We identify and invest in watershed rural lands to place forest and farmland in the hands of the next generation of stewards.


Stewardship of Others -

We provide safety, resources, support, and encouragement to those around us.

We contribute financial reserves, food to our food bank, or work in our community..

We provide and support education to the future stewards of our various overlapping communities.

Stewardship of Self -

We cultivate our own physical, mental, and spiritual health

We communicate with intention, to understand and uplift.

We treasure our creativity and give ourselves time and place in which to play.