Beardsley Community Farm is an urban demonstration farm within Knoxville,
TN. Their goal is to provide healthy food access to the Knoxville food dessert
area with help from volunteers and the community. Fresh produce is donated
year-round to relief organizations in the area. However, Beardsley exists on land
where there is no secure office or space to provide educational workshops and food
prep.

The University of Tennessee began a design-build initiative to create an office space
and educational space for the Beardsley Community Farm. As of April 2016, the
educational center is complete and being used by the Beardsley Community Farm
workers and volunteers.

Having the pleasure of being a part of this vision for three courses, I helped design
and build parts of the exisiting structure, as well as conceptualize and design future
additions to Beardsley Community Farm. My involvement included a course focused
on design and construction documents, a course focused on brick-laying and labor for
the construction of the building and lastly a course focused on details, such as the
protective bamboo fence and enclosures for the recently vandalized bee-hives.
The construction of the Beardsley Community Farm Educational Center was in
collaboration with Elizabeth Eason Architecture, as well as my fellow UTK College
of Architecture + Design classmates within the UTK DBEI.