Tennessee Code Title 43. Agriculture and Horticulture § 43-24-102

(1) “Community garden” means a piece of real property, either on vacant public land or on private land, cultivated by residents of a neighborhood or community, or members of a homeowners or condominium owners association for the purpose of providing the following for the use of residents of the neighborhood or community, or members of the homeowners or condominium owners association:

(2) “Grand-mentoring” means collaborative projects between persons sixty (60) years of age or older and students in kindergarten through twelfth (K-12) grade;

(3) “Local government” means any municipality, county or metropolitan government;

(4) “Use” means, when applied to gardening and beekeeping, to make use of, without conveyance of title or any other ownership; and

(5) “Vacant public land” means land owned by a local government that is not in use for public purposes, and includes property controlled by a parks and recreation department or similar entity that is not currently being used as park land.