Greetings garden friends!
We had a sweet surprise this past week with the readiness of our sweet potato crop two weeks before the expected harvest date. HUGE spuds have been unearthed along with lots of nice sized and several smaller treasures perfect for roasting and stir fries…and don’t forget the pies! Be sure to check out all the great sweet potato recipes posted on our previous blog post. Our collards are delicious along with turnip greens, beets, baby lettuce, Romaine, and soon to harvest Kale! We are still picking a few summer tomatoes, plenty of eggplant, and leeks along with the spring planted Swiss chard (the best producing crop ever!!) We look forward to fall planted spinach, arugula, carrots, turnip roots, and radishes.
Catch up with some of our fall pics posted recently on Facebook by using the following link: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.597393023632288.1073741836.129413523763576&type=1&l=649c63da67
It is never too late to join the garden. Still plenty of things to work on, take care
of, and harvest till the end of our fall season. Our garden nights will continue through the
end of October from 5:30pm-dark and our Saturdays
(10-noon), will conclude on December 14th.
We welcome back Thomas Irby (and Leah and Judah!) as a Concord UMC
ministerial interns for the 2013-2014 academic year! We also welcome our new ministerial intern, Melisa
Peebles, who is very excited to learn and share with us in the garden every
Saturday workday!
Last weekend, I was re-inspired through my attendance at a
2-day Food and Faith gathering in Durham entitled, Summoned Toward Wholeness: A Conference on Food, Farming, and the Life of Faith.
In the words of biblical scholar Ellen Davis, who gave the opening
plenary, the biblical witness is quite clear that, "The life of the land
is inseparable from our own life; its health is inseparable from ours."
The entire two days' worth of conversations, you might say, were an
extended commentary on that scriptural witness.
We continually give thanks and praise to our Lord our God for His gift of the Garden of Concord and all of His creation. In Genesis 2:15, we are invited to know and share in God’s love by nurturing human life as God “took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it”. As quoted in a book by author and theologian, Dr. Norman Wirzba, Making Peace with the Land, “When we garden well, we do not only grow food for our bodies and flowers for our tables; we share in and extend God’s feeding, healing and sustaining ways with the world. We demonstrate an appreciation for the divine love that forever cherishes the earth.
We continually give thanks and praise to our Lord our God for His gift of the Garden of Concord and all of His creation. In Genesis 2:15, we are invited to know and share in God’s love by nurturing human life as God “took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it”. As quoted in a book by author and theologian, Dr. Norman Wirzba, Making Peace with the Land, “When we garden well, we do not only grow food for our bodies and flowers for our tables; we share in and extend God’s feeding, healing and sustaining ways with the world. We demonstrate an appreciation for the divine love that forever cherishes the earth.
Thank you for
your continued support, love, and prayers for our garden as we continue to be
stewards of “the land in the east” and throughout the world together. It WILL be good!
-Donna Poe
Garden
Coordinator
