News & Press
In the News
From local newspapers to network television, the story of Frontline Gardens is spreading. Here is what the press is saying about our mission to heal veterans through the soil.
Press Coverage
Featured In
June 2025 · Audree Curran
University of Tennessee football team helps East Tennessee veteran with garden growing project
An East Tennessee veteran will soon get the chance to bring fresh food to the table with the help of the University of Tennessee football team.. click to read more
Read Article
May 2024 · Will Woolever
Gardens Offer Healing for Veterans
A full feature on Dominique Lewis’s garden build in Franklin, NC — the first Frontline Gardens project in Western North Carolina. Three local veteran groups came together to build a star-shaped raised bed and a dozen planting enclosures for Lewis and his family.
Read Article
January 2023
East Tennessee Military Family Receives Frontline Garden
WBIR covered the build day as an East Tennessee military family received their custom therapeutic garden — complete with raised beds, herb planters, and ongoing gardening education.
Read Article
July 2022 · Knox News Staff
Frontline Gardens Aims to Help Veterans with PTSD Heal
Knox News covers the founding story of Frontline Gardens — how Mike Trost’s 32-year Army career, five gunshot wounds, and 35 surgeries led to a discovery in the soil that became a mission to serve veterans across the South.
Read Article
2022 · John Becker
Service & Sacrifice: Soil for the Soul
WBIR’s Service & Sacrifice segment followed a Frontline Gardens build day, capturing the volunteer effort and therapeutic impact. "A garden gives you a purpose — it needs you to live."
Read Article
March 2022 · Shane Duncan
Frontline Gardens assists local veteran by installing a garden
A Monroe County organization is helping many veterans across the state by creating gardens for them... click to read more.
Read ArticleUpdates
From the Field
Build updates, community milestones, and stories from the ground.
May 2023
Local Veteran Receives Garden in Tellico Plains
Veteran Reggie Elliott of Tellico Plains received a custom garden installation from Frontline Gardens, with coverage from the Advocate & Democrat newspaper.
2022
Helping Frontline Gardens Grow
A call to the community: how you can support America’s heroes through donations, volunteering, and spreading the word about therapeutic gardening for veterans and first responders.
2021
First Frontline Gardens Build is Complete!
The very first Frontline Gardens build — veteran Shannon received 6 raised beds, 2 Jack Daniels container planters, and 4 herb boxes, built by the Sons of American Legion Post 95 Chattanooga.
2021
American Legion Post 95 Meets With Frontline Gardens
American Legion Post 95 East Ridge stepped up to partner with Frontline Gardens for two builds in Chattanooga — and offered to help with future projects. Veterans helping veterans.
Media Inquiries
Want to Cover Our Story?
We welcome press coverage and media partnerships. If you are a journalist, producer, or blogger who wants to share the Frontline Gardens mission, we would love to hear from you.
Stephanie Trost, Executive Director · Stephanie.Trost@frontlinegardens.org
Support the Mission
Every garden we build gives a veteran a reason to step outside, kneel in the dirt, and begin again. Your support makes this work possible.