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Let’s Move! Faith Community Garden Guide

By Timothy Goldman, USDA, Washington, DC

There are many positive benefits to starting a community garden: increasing access to healthy, fresh food; improving soil and water quality; providing exercise for people within a wide range of physical ability; and creating the opportunity to teach about nutrition, agriculture, and ecology.


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Blake Wamester on April 6, 2011 at 8:45 am

We are hoping to start a community garden, and already have a very active outreach program to the community. But, a garden offers unique benefits, of which you have spoken. Not only is it intergenerational in nature, but afford the congregation another opportunity to come together in the summer months when normally many are away; it gives us another way of celebrating the stewardship of creation as an example of the ongoing stewardship we should have to the world; and to live out once more the injunction of Micah 6:8. In our area there are also many resources to gain expertise in gardening and many free services to get started. Next year we will be using Godly Play as a major part of our Sunday School material. Having a community garden will provide ample opportunity to talk about many of the parables of Christ in new and realistic ways. Thanks for your article. Rev. Blake Wamester Interim Rector St. David's Gales Ferry, Ct.

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