A publication of the Baltimore Food & Faith Project supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Good Food Digest
Calendar
Fall 2013
Garden Celebration Dinner
On Oct.10 BFFP held its fourth annual
Faith Garden Celebration Dinner.
Past and present garden grant recipients gathered to share a sustainable
meal made from mostly regional
foods; share stories of challenges,
successes, and impacts; and view
pictures from this year’s garden
activities. The event was graciously
hosted by Epiphany Episcopal Church
in Timonium and gathered represen-
tatives from nine gardens.
Some of the successes shared by
attendees included supplying fresh,
local, organically grown meals to
food pantries and community meals,
teaching children within schools and
congregations the fundamentals of
farming, and forming partnerships
with other organizations to discover
and learn the potential and importance of sustainable farming.
Culinary Demonstration
November 9
Composting Workshop: How
the Worm Turns
http://www.carriemurraynaturecenter.org/events/#nov9
12pm – 2pm
Learn about worm composting,
compost bins, and compost piles.
While you’re here pick up some
worms to get started
November 16
Through a partnership with the Baltimore Orchard Project and the Maryland University of Integrative Health
(formerly Tai Sophia Institute), and
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church,
Baltimore Food and Faith Project
sponsored its first culinary demonstration. The culinary demonstration,
led by Kathy McNeely, mainly utilized
locally grown apples supplied by the
Baltimore Orchard Project.
Winter Gardening Workshop
McNeely discussed the health benefits of apples, including their vitamin-rich skins, and recommended
seeking out pesticide-free apples.
The 40 or so participants sampled
cinnamon-topped apple slices, home-
Tree Planting and Caring
Event
http://boonestreetfarm.blogspot.
com/p/workshops.html
10am – 12pm
What do you do with your garden in the winter? Learn how to
winterize your garden at Boone
Street Community Garden
November 16
made apple sauce, and an apple-butternut squash soup. They also left
with recipes on how to create these
and other culinary delights in their
own homes.
Wellness Bible Study:
The Food and Faith
Connection
By Surina Ann Jordan
At Huber Memorial Church in Baltimore City, we have been making the
faith and food connection, not only
with a community garden, but by
offering a Bible study on wellness.
Years ago Huber Memorial, under
the leadership of Pastor P.M. Smith,
adopted as its mission “rescue the
https://www.eventbrite.com/
event/7964549181
9am – 1pm
For our last volunteer tree planting event, we will likely plant
trees at Wm Paca Elementary
School and we will do some tree
maintenance to those trees we’ve
planted. Meet at the Prince of
Peace Baptist Church, 600 N.
Linwood Ave. 21205 at 9:00 a.m.
Rain date is the Sunday following
the Saturday date
children, redeem the family, and recreate community.” Each week, Smith
challenges members to “live like it.”
The church operates a preschool and
elementary school; a feeding ministry, athletic ministry; and members
can select the wellness class from one
of approximately 50 life-enhancing
Bible study classes. It was a perfect
fit for Huber.
The eight-week wellness class curriculum is based on my upcoming
book entitled The Seven Disciplines
of Wellness. I am a church member, a
researcher, and a holistic nutritionist.
These disciplines are fully supported
by the Bible and are the core teaching.
For example, disciplines one and
two emphasize faith in Jesus Christ,
prayer and the great commandment
as essentials for wellness. These two
disciplines empower and motivate
participants to make sustainable
change. It presents wellness as a
lifestyle that is possible based on the
spiritual constitution of a person.
To live being accountable to God is
witnessed through stewardship of the
body and the world He has provided
us.
Discipline Seven is Eat and Drink Pure.
The course addresses the original diet
and wise counsel found in scripture
about food. Other disciplines include
fitness, household management, using
common sense to make healthy deci-
sions, and purposeful living.
Within the eight-week period, four
optional events are held in order to
give the practical application of key
elements of the disciplines.
1. A group meal at a plant-based
restaurant. Sample plant-based
proteins and fresh vegetables.
2. An early-morning walk and
tailgate at Lake Montebello.
Following a few laps around the
lake, snacks include Ezekiel raisin
bread squares and nondairy cream
cheese, organic apples, nutty energy bars, packs of raw almonds or
raisins, water and hot apple cider.
3. A tour of a food store or
farmers’ market. Emphasizes
reading labels, meal planning and
conscious shopping.
4. An end-of-class healthy meal
and food demonstration.
In the three years the course has
been taught at Huber, more than 10
percent of the congregation has completed it. Others have also benefited
from one-day workshops.
The book will be released at the end
of November. In early 2014, a workbook and train-the-trainer program
will be available.
For more information, contact me at
[email protected] or 443-690-7315.
Food For Thought:
“The existence of urban farming comes as a surprise to most Westerners, because the phenomenon has until recently been underreported… Yet urban agriculture and animal husbandry are, historically
speaking, the norm; they probably began with the very first cities…
The historical peculiarity to be explained, then, is not the recent
rise of urban agriculture but rather the absence of farming from
industrialized cities throughout the twentieth century.” - From Ellen
Davis from her book Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian
Reading of the Bible.
November 23
Gleaning with Gather
Baltimore
http://www.gatherbaltimore.org/
events/gleaning-event-w-the-conventual-franciscan-friars-gather-baltimore/
9am – 12pm
Please join The Conventual Franciscan Friars & Gather Baltimore
on Saturday November 23rd 2013
as we glean at TBD Farm!! Check
website for location
On-Going
Gather Baltimore’s Free
produce Market – Every
Sunday (through Dec 1)
http://www.gatherbaltimore.org/
volunteer-calendar/
Every Sunday from 1:30 to
2:30pm. Gather Baltimore will
give away FREE produce to anyone at their Oliver Farm Stand.
1435 North Bond St., 21213