Come to the Table: A Conference on Food Faith and Farms in North Carolina



	Getting Started Assessment Project ideas Stories Resources NC Links Community News Statement on Ownership of Seeds Community Garden Resources Home		Community Garden Resources 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