PEACE FROM A PALLET® From Mean Green CommuniVersity to the Mean Green Economy™ How One UNT Alumnus Is Planting Opportunity in Fort Worth’s Historic Morningside.

PEACE FROM A PALLET® From Mean Green CommuniVersity to the Mean Green Economy™ How One UNT Alumnus Is Planting Opportunity in Fort Worth’s Historic Morningside. | https://youtu.be/1zFbKLdHgkA?is=U8tLSX1AC4fH5wl2

By Black Texans, Inc.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS When Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr. walked onto the campus of the University of North Texas in the fall of 1986, he discovered more than the Mean Green tradition. He discovered a CommuniVersity—a place where students from different backgrounds learned, served, competed, worshiped, and led together. Four decades later, those experiences have inspired him to build an economic movement rooted in that same spirit of collaboration.

Arriving in Denton after beginning his collegiate football career, Tatum embraced every opportunity the university offered. As a Mean Green wide receiver, he immersed himself in campus life, serving in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Progressive Black Student Organization, the Student Government Association, and numerous student leadership opportunities. Those experiences convinced him that lasting change happens when people unite around a common purpose.

Today, as Senior Pastor of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church and President of the Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas, Tatum is bringing that lesson home to Fort Worth’s Historic Morningside through an initiative he calls The Mean Green Economy™—a faith-centered model that combines urban agriculture, workforce development, entrepreneurship, environmental stewardship, and CommuniVersity partnerships to strengthen neighborhoods from the ground up.

The Funkytown Food Forest: The Home of the Mean Green Economy™

The home of that vision is the Funkytown Food Forest, where Peace From A Pallet® transforms reclaimed wooden pallets into productive gardens that cultivate far more than food. The initiative develops leaders, prepares the workforce, inspires entrepreneurship, strengthens families, and creates renewed hope.

For Tatum, the journey from Mean Green student to CommuniVersity pastor has come full circle. The same collaborative spirit he experienced at UNT now lives on in Morningside, where churches, universities, nonprofits, businesses, government agencies, and neighbors come together through CommuniVersity to grow opportunity from the ground up.

At New Mount Rose, CommuniVersity means bringing together the Heart of the Church, the Hands of the Community, and the Heads of the Academy to create lasting economic opportunity. The Funkytown Food Forest serves as the living classroom where those partnerships produce healthier families, stronger neighborhoods, and a more resilient local economy.

The vision is simple.

Grow Food.

Grow People.

Grow Neighborhoods.

Grow the Economy.

Because…

CommuniVersity is the soil.

The Mean Green Economy™ is the harvest.

The Mean Green Formula™

Peace From A Pallet® — The Launch Project

The Funkytown Food Forest — The Home

The Mean Green Economy™ — The Vision

New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church — The Catalyst

CommuniVersity — The Philosophy

Morningside 76104 — The Demonstration Neighborhood

Texas — The Expansion Strategy

America — The Opportunity

For More Information

Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr.

Senior Pastor, New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church

The Mean Green Economy™ | Peace From A Pallet® | Funkytown Food Forest | CommuniVersity

2864 Mississippi Avenue

Fort Worth, Texas 76104

Phone: 817-966-7625

Email: kptatum1@gmail.com

Website: www.newmountrose.com