A publication of the Baltimore Food & Faith Project supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Good Food Digest
Calendar
Summer 2013
Introducing Darriel Harris
Hello everyone. My name is Darriel
Harris. Several weeks ago I joined
Johns Hopkins Center For a Livable
Future as a Project Officer for the
Baltimore Food and Faith Project. I
am excited to be onboard and a part
of the great work happening here. I
will be working closely with Allison
Righter and in consultation with Angela Smith. Since I began, I’ve been
inspired by the important work being
done by
so many.
I hope my
involvement
helps the
project
continue
to make significant strides in impacting the way we eat, think, and pray.
August 10
Fall Garden Planting
Workshop
boonestreetfarm.blogspot.
com/p/workshops.html
10am-12pm
Learn about transplanting and
seeding your fall garden at by
Boone Street Community Garden
from 10am-12pm.
August 18
Summer Film Screening a Success!
BFFP would like to thank all who attended or promoted our annual summer film screening. On Sunday, July
28, we gathered at Govans Presbyterian Church to watch In Organic We
Trust, a film that promotes consuming
sustainable, fair, and local foods, as
opposed to blindly trusting all foods
with the USDA certified organic label.
A vibrant discussion led by Steve Holt
of Interfaith Work Justice and Zach
Chissell of Real Food Farm followed
the screening. If you, your congregation, or your organization would
like to host a film screening, the BFFP
has a library of films available as a
resource.
Project Spotlight:
Epiphany Episcopal Church
Epiphany Episcopal Church is one
of the recipients of the 2013 BFFP
Garden Grants. In addition to starting the garden, Epiphany utilized
our youth summer camp curriculum,
Growing Faith with Food, to teach
children about the connections between faith and food. Amelia Franz,
a member of Epiphany, shares their
story below.
By Amelia Franz
“Look! It’s a REAL tomato!”
“Can I taste this basil?”
“Look how big the squash seeds
grew!”
As these comments suggest, our
Epiphany Sunday School and Day Care
kids are absolutely fascinated by
our new community organic garden,
and they’re thoroughly enjoying the
Growing Faith with Food Sunday
School series we’re using this summer. We’ve adapted the curriculum to
work with 45-minute Sunday morning
lessons, rather than the full-day camp
format, so they’re more like mini-lessons, with time spent outside observing our basil, squash, and tomatoes.
They especially enjoyed the
lesson on seeds. They were puzzled,
at first, when we told them to pull
off their shoes and put on large white
Charm City Farm & Garden
Tour
charmcitygardentour.wordpress.
com
Bike tour starts at 8am
Meet at Patterson Park
Bus tour starts at 11am
Meet at Vollmer Center, Cylburn
Arboretum
Visit vibrant, diverse community-managed green spaces by bike
or by bus, with celebratory picnic
to follow.
Sept 14
Food Preserving Workshop
boonestreetfarm.blogspot.
com/p/workshops.html
10am-12pm
Learn how to can,freeze and
dry your extra produce from the
garden, hosted by Boone Street
Community Garden from 10am12pm.
tube socks. A few minutes later, they
were giggling and running wildly
around the church grounds wearing
the socks. The “learning” part of the
lesson came when we pulled off the
socks and looked for seeds sticking to
the soles.
Calendar (Continued)
On-going
Gather Baltimore’s Free
Produce Market – Every
Sunday
Our wonderful intern, Megan Litzinger, has been leading the
lessons this summer, and she’s done
a fabulous job with getting to know
and care for the children, as well as
communicating the importance of
caring for creation by both learning
and doing.
I’ll be sad to see the summer
end. I can honestly say that Growing
Faith with Food, combined with our
Sunday School garden, has generated new enthusiasm from our Sunday
School kids, as well as their parents.
I hope we can continue drawing on
the “caring for creation” theme, even
http://www.gatherbaltimore.
org/
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.
Congregational Farmers’
Market – Every Saturday
after the summer has ended. Thank
you, Baltimore Food & Faith Project!
http://www.ctkepiscopal.org/
Community/farmersmarket.html
Shop local products from Shoestring Acres farm in Clearvilled,
PA at their farmers’ market,
hosted by the Episcopal Church
of Christ the King in Woodlawn
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation wins Good
Food Challenge!
The winner of our 2013 Good Food
Challenge is Baltimore Hebrew
Congregation.! The congregation
will receive $3,000 to put toward
implementing the action plan they
developed while completing the Good
Food Toolkit. We would like to thank
all congregations who participated
in the Good Food Challenge. We
offer a special thank you and a warm
congratulations to Baltimore Hebrew
Congregation for all their hard work
and dedication to improving their
food sustainability practices. We will
be sharing a more detailed story with
pictures highlighting their work soon.
Food for thought
“Soil is a portal to another world.” It is with this sentiment that Fred Bahnson begins his
new book, Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith. A graduate of Duke
Divinity School and current director of the Food, Faith, & Religious Leadership Initiative at
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Bahnson shares a powerful, personal story of
how growing and sharing food pull us closer to God. This book will be released on Aug. 6,
so look for it soon in bookstores, or pre-order through Amazon.
We also encourage you to check out the recommended reading list on our Web site for
similar titles about food and spirituality: http://bit.ly/19tcHK9