“Bringing Back the Bees” with the goal of taking a beehive to the garden in our efforts to bring back the bees to the garden as a vital component of it. It was quiet and peaceful; we felt just a smooth breeze and the crispy sound of the dried leaves right under our feet.
Anathoth Community Garden is a ministry of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church and beyond this, is the fruit of hands pulling together, working together to feed their bodies with the bountiful harvest of fresh, organic fruits and vegetables and their souls having a place where make new friends, grow new relationships with the people around them, the land, and the Earth.
We had a very nice tour with Fred, the Garden Manager and Wren, an intern from Duke Divinity School. You could feel the passion of the work that they are doing there and is contagious. As Fred wrote in one of his articles about the garden “our goal is to make Anathoth community Garden sustainable in the most basic sense, it operates only entirely on sunlight and work of human hands – and the invisible movement of God’s Spirit.”
We left the place with our hands full (a box with greens and bright colorful lettuces) and our hearts pounding hard with emotion. We joined the garden, it is a project that is a pleasure to be part of, looking forward to start working, learning, making new friends and sharing the goodness of the land.
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