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Garden Events
Feasting With God: a Peace with Justice Retreat begins at 9 AM Saturday, September 26 and ends at 1 PM Sunday, September 27.Spend a weekend at beautiful Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center exploring what it might mean to have food in a manner pleasing to God. Weekend activities include learning to shop for, cook, and preserve fresh, locally grown foods with the help of local chefs; celebrating and giving thanks for the year's harvest through worship, film, and discussion... and, of course, sharing delicious, healthy food! Registration fee: $55 for full event (includes all meals, lodging, and workshop materials), $25 for Saturday only (includes 2 meals and workshop materials)Financial assistance is available. Registration is required. Space is limited. For online registration click here or contact Chris Burtner chris@campchestnutridge.org.
Resources
Cultivating Community: Notes from Come to the Table's "Cultivating Community: Starting a Congregation-Sponsored Community Garden," November, 2007. (PDF)
Community Gardens: (PDF) A Come to the Table fact sheet
Recommended Community Garden Resources: A List from PING (PDF)
Helpful Links
NC Cooperative Extension Community Garden Website
American Community Gardening Association
National Gardening Association
Growing Small Farms: Planting schedules, pest control and other info for central North Carolina farms
Just Eating Curriculum: A Bible study curriculum on food and justice
Faith-Led Gardens in the News
By the Square Foot (on square-foot gardening and the St. Anne's Episcopal Church Peace Garden) - Winston-Salem Journal, June 6, 2009
Church Turning Eyesore into a Garden (on Main Street United Methodist's Garden) - Winston-Salem Journal, May 31, 2009
Planting the Seed (on gardens including one at Concord United Methodist Church) - The (Burlington)Times-News, May 22, 2009
Gardens Yield Food, Fruit of the Spirit (on Triangle gardens - Covenant, Anathoth, Simple Gifts and Interfaith Food Shuttle) - The (Raleigh) News and Observer, April 19, 2009
Seeds of Joy (on Anathoth Community Garden) - Winston-Salem Journal, Feb. 14, 2009
Share Work and Harvest (on Covenant Community Garden)- The News and Observer,
July 27, 2008
Seagrove Community Garden Receives Grant from Fiskars - The Courier-Tribune, March 2, 2008
A Garden Becomes a Protest: The Field at Anathoth - Orion Magazine, July, 2007
Our Favorite Garden Books
Books in bold are available through the lending library at the Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA. Contact Claire, claire@rafiusa.org, for information.
How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, by John Jeavons
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden:A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soils and Higher Yields, by John Jeavons and Carol Cox
Seed to Seed:Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener, by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy
The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals, by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley
The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, by Eliot Coleman and Francis Blake
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, and Kathy Bray
All New Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew
Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden by Sally Jean Cunnigham
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! by Patricia Lanza
Simply in Season Cookbook, by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-wert
Simply in Season Children’s Cookbook, by Mark Beach and Julie Kauffman
Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America’s Classic Preserving Guide, by Carol Hupping
Community Gardening (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide), by Elizabeth Tehle Peters and Ellen Kirby
Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread, ed. Michael Schut
The Essential Agrarian Reader, ed. Norman Wirzba
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture:An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen Davis, forward by Wendell Berry
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PO Box 640
Pittsboro, NC, 27510
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