Come to the Table NC

Ashe Outreach Ministries Receives Over 1,000 Plants from Grow and Share

Thanks to Grow and Share for donating over 1,000 plants last week to Ashe Outreach Ministries’ Outgrow Hunger Program! After our first Come to the Table Conference Steering Committee meeting at RAFI’s office in Pittsboro, we loaded up Rob Brooks’ truck with heirloom varieties of tomatoes, tomatillos, melons, okra, cucumbers and summer squash. Rob will [...]
Helping the Land to Remember: Poems, Faith, and Farming

Anatoth Community Garden’s founder, Fred Bahnson, spent a season starting garden workdays (and our garden network meetings) by reading a poem. You’d be surprised how smoothly a strategic planning meeting goes after everyone in the room has spent a few minutes quietly listening to something beautiful. Fred ended all his emails that year with three [...]
God’s First Gift: Seeds, markets, and biodiversity

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And [...]
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Planting Seeds in Eastern NC

At the February 2011 Come to the Table Conference in Eastern NC, a group of volunteers gathered at the house of Guillermina Garcia to help plant seeds for her garden. The group included conference participants, youth from NC Dream Team and Poder Juvenil Campesino, members of Women Without Borders, and other people from the community. [...]
Local Food Community: A Statewide Conversation

At each one of this year’s Come to the Table Conferences, attendees took part in facilitated discussions about how faith communities can support farms and build long-term food security in our state. Participants were asked to answer some core questions: “How can faith communities create transformative ministries that build long-term food security in both urban and rural [...]

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The Come to the Table project works with people of faith to relieve hunger and sustain local agriculture. The projects’ leaders include farmers, farm workers, food pantry directors, community gardeners, ministers, public employees and lay leaders. Since 2006, Come to the Table has gathered North Carolinians at regional, biannual conferences and provided resources to people [...]

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Come to the Table Guidebook

The Come to the Table Guidebook is a 40-page downloadable publication that includes an overview of the theology and issues surrounding farming and food security in North Carolina, perspectives from faith leaders, easy tools for identifying the needs and resources in your community, example projects for congregations to relieve hunger and support local food production, and [...]

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Community Food Assessments

What is a community food assessment? Every congregation, every community, has gifts to bring to the table when it comes to sustaining local farms, relieving hunger, and honoring the land. Scripture is full of stories where God faithfully transforms humble offerings of a couple of pancakes, say, or a few loaves, into life-giving food for [...]

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