Southern Hills Mennonite Church, Topeka, Kansas, has been a promoter of community gardening for well over sixty years. We have always maintained a congregation garden. …
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Harrisonburg Mennonite Puts the “Community” Back into Gardening
Mennonites love good food and good company, and Harrisonburg Mennonite Church (HMC) is no exception. For the last three years at HMC, a gardening initiative…
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Mennonite Church of Normal:
Rain Garden Promotes Wonder, Curbs Polution
Zipping and fluttering in the air against a backdrop of wildflowers, hummingbirds and dozens of species of dragonflies and butterflies have come to inhabit the native prairie rain garden at the Mennonite Church of Normal. An existing 1700 sq ft turf drainage swale adjacent to the church parking lot was converted to a rain garden in order to increase landscape biodiversity, enhance the swale’s ability to filter stormwater runoff and to promote curiosity and wonderment in children of the congregation and the surrounding neighborhood. Read more and see photos
Menno/Muslim Garden Grows Food and Relationships
by Patrick Maxwell, MCCN staff intern A garden situated between a Mosque and a Mennonite church in Champaign, Ill., is growing more than produce—it’s also…
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Honduran Finds a Warm Welcome in Community Garden
Francisco Machado says that Harrisonburg Mennonite Church’s garden has given him a way of living out his love for both the Church and the earth….
Read moreFor in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20