The Crossing’s motivation for restoring a degraded piece of property was much more than just curb appeal.
Gardening
At first glance the Eden Project in Cornwall England looks like it would be more comfortably be at home on Mars rather than the quiet English countryside, but it is entirely earthly. The Eden Project began in 2001 in an old clay pit that looked like this as a work of ecological restoration and public [...]
Recently I was staying at a friends house in the suburbs and it was a slow morning and it felt great outside so I went out on the porch and spent some time just staring. It is a new suburb, one that is built where the developers think the town will eventually be, meaning that [...]
By Andy Patton [Ed. note: This article is part of our weekly series of church activities, called Cultivating Community, published on Thursdays.] 2010 has come and (almost) gone so we here at Flourish are taking a retrospective look back into the archives. We’ve dug up 6 practical ways for churches to start bringing creation care out [...]
The season of Advent means the advent of next year’s garden, too.
The routine of the garden year is split open by transcendent surprises.
Conservation is only one part of the equation. Cultivation is the other, and the time to cultivate is now.
By John Leax Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Here Here is the place of order made by daily labor. Against bright sky, the house, limned by spruce and larch, grown old in weathered caring, stands white. Beyond its shadow, the garden lies down in rows stretched fondly on the earth. Forsythia and honeysuckle, lilac, lily, and [...]
By Christiana Peterson Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Canning is a method of preserving food invented by a confectioner and brewer in 19th century France when the government offered money to anyone who could come up with a way to preserve large amounts of food for their armies. This method, which has remained largely unchanged since [...]
Bring a plant, get a new plant! A plant swap is an easy (and cheap!) way to build community with others from outside of your church by stewarding God’s creation together.
Our goal is to slowly remake our landscape from one of suburban conformity to one that is God-glorifying and provides food for many different kinds of creatures, including humans.
Arbor Day is tomorrow, and here are some suggestions for planting some of God’s most beautiful creatures–trees!–as a church family.
Creation care isn’t only about big landscapes and vast wildernesses. We meet God in the particularity of tomatoes and radishes and cucumbers, too.
The how’s and why’s of cultivating the earth and connecting to God through organic gardening.
