How Does Your Garden Grow? The How-To’s and Many Benefits of Community Gardening

going-to-the-garden-titleTuesday, March 31, 2015
7:00pm EST

Spring is right around the corner, and that means it is time to start thinking about planting a garden! Gardens are more than a space to grow food or flowers. They can also strengthen communities through a common purpose and bring our attention to larger issues of food security and creation care.

This webinar will focus on basic gardening how-to’s, such as site selection and ways to get started in a new space, as well as learning how your congregation can start growing through Going to the Garden. We will also take the time to reflect on why it is important for us, as people of faith, to consider where our food comes from and the role of gardening in our own lives.

Join us for this first webinar in our spring series about community gardening! If you have any questions about this webinar or Going to the Garden, please e-mail kfurrow@brethren.org.

To register for this webinar, please go to: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EB56DB87874A3B

Presenters:


DSCN0742Gerry Lee
has done community gardening for decades in diverse neighborhoods in Boston and Philadelphia.  In West Philadelphia, Gerry worked for three years with an alliance of small urban growers who raised organic vegetables and fruits on empty lots, and on marginal land, for sale or donation in areas designated as food deserts. Those years taught him about the unique opportunities and challenges for the passionate urban farmer.

Cynthia's Royer-Miller photo2Dan and Margo Royer-Miller began their farming experience in 2005 with an internship at an organic farm, followed by a three-year apprenticeship at Ecology Action in Willits, CA. There they learned the small-scale food-raising method called biointensive agriculture. They, with their two boys, now live in Trotwood, Ohio, working toward an ever simpler and more meaningful life.

Ragan-headshot smallRagan Sutterfield is a writer and ecological theologian currently sojourning in Northern Virginia.  His work includes Farming as a Spiritual Discipline, Cultivating Reality: How the Soil Might Save Us, and most recently This is My Body: From Obesity to Ironman, My Journey into the True Meaning of Flesh, Spirit, and Deeper Faith. He can be found online at ragansutterfield.com.

 

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