Tucson Botanical Gardens - Michelle Conklin, Juliet Niehaus, and other folks - helped us make the connection last week between community gardens and horticultural therapy - may be there is some thing there for us as a congregation - a ministry involving plants and people who can no longer get easily to church, or other community activities... hmmm...
http://www.tucsonbotanical.org/
Meanwhile Christine Sine has got us all thinking about community gardens in Edmonds - she's advising the Church of the Beloved on starting a garden at Rosewood Manor - where they meet...
http://belovedschurch.org
And together with the Beloved, St Alban's people are planning a springtime celebration next weekend, the Little Feast
http://littlefeast.eventbrite.com
Wondering how other folks have made connections between community gardens and other services to the community...
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In his book "Closing the Food Gap" Mark Winne quotes someone (who?) to the effect that the most important work in the phrase "community gardening" is not gardening.
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