Community Garden Network Archives - A Rocha

Why choose to grow food with Organic seeds?

A Rocha Canada — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:02:19 +0000

It’s March and I bet you are considering plants and seeds for your garden, as you’re doing that I want to encourage you to choose organic seeds. Why is it important to choose organic seeds, you may ask if you will eventually grow it organically in your community garden? Well, the quick answer is that [...]

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All Saints movie similar to A Rocha real-life

A Rocha Canada — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 02:43:58 +0000

Written by Christie Goode, VP of Advancement One of the deep truths that A Rocha has discovered over its 34 years of work around the world, is that it takes a community to care for the earth. One person, or one family, gets burnt out when doing this work on our own. We get [...]

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A Successful Communal Garden Pilot Project

A Rocha Canada — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:00:46 +0000

Written by Queenie Hewitt Katelyn Cannon and Ruth Douglas helped kick-start this beautiful communal veggie garden with their church community as part of their Applied Ecology Class at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. I met them early spring of 2016 at the site of Christ Covenant Church in Langley. We met [...]

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More Than Dirt: Growing Good Soil!

A Rocha Canada — Wed, 03 May 2017 21:20:56 +0000

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no [...]

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Go, Green Team, Go!

A Rocha Canada — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:52:09 +0000

A Good Seed Sunday Story by April Yamasaki (Lead Pastor, Emmanuel Mennonite Church) Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, BC is serious about creation care. Emmanuel’s Green Team focuses on raising awareness related to creation care and greening our church and homes in a variety of ways. So we have buckets in our church foyer for [...]

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Gardeners in our Network

A Rocha Canada — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:30:14 +0000

As we look forward to Spring, we took a moment to compile the photos of gardeners in our Community Garden Network this past year in 2016. Here are so many smiling faces working the soil! Our A Rocha Community Garden Network, based in Metro Vancouver, had the privilege of supporting gardeners from a [...]

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Creating Hospitality in our Gardens

A Rocha Canada — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:58:44 +0000

Our Community Garden Network had to opportunity to learn from Christine Sine and Andy Wade of Mustard Seed Associates, gleaning from their experiences of cultivating welcoming outdoor spaces. Christine guided us to think about how a Garden would offer hospitality to God and neighbour. Many shared from their own experiences of how their garden would welcome [...]

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New Eden Gardening Ministry Stewarding God’s Creation

A Rocha Canada — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 08:30:30 +0000

Rev. Shihoko and her husband Ken had a goal of actively participating in the redemption of God's Creation through organic farming. Their desire was realized when they were connected to a farm owner excited to support their vision of growing food to share with groups who have limited access to local fresh food. Two Saturdays each month from May [...]

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Recipes for success in your Community Garden

A Rocha Canada — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:58:30 +0000

Our friends at Saanich Community Food Bank Garden (SCFBG) on Vancouver Island always have a bountiful garden. SCFBG is a regular contributor of fresh organically grown vegetables to their local food bank in Victoria, BC donating hundreds of pounds of produce each year, since 2007. Wonder what is the secret to their success? Here are [...]

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Welcome to our new website!

A Rocha Canada — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:28:08 +0000

We've got heads a-turning with a new website designed to connect you even better with creation. Discover downloadable resources for creation care in your church. Learn about your own ecosystems and our conservation efforts to steward them. Sign-up as a volunteer to participate hands-on with A Rocha across Canada. Find all this and more at the [...]

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