Folks Involved in Biblical Gardening who are in touch by Email.
About EIGHTY different folks are now in the midst of Biblical Gardens creation to the best we know. These friends have agreed to share their news! Would you like to tell your story and even better send us some photos to post? Yes!
Nera Monastery in Romania is making plans to construct a Biblical Garden and is hoping for friends to support the project. If you would like to help, you may contact Re. Evloghie at naturalia@xnet.ro
A couple in Lusaka Zambia has contacted out church to help them establish a 10 acre Biblical Garden on their land for the inspiration and instruction of their neighbors.
Nina Mitchell in Glen Burie, MD started planning a Biblical garden within her own home gardens this September. Nina who finds gardening tremendously renewing (like so many of us) is naming this plot "My Biblical Paradise."
Karen Draycot has begun designing and constructing a Biblical Garden at St. Giles Church, Thrapston, Northants, England.
The Thomason Family in northern California has bought a plot of land as in developing it as a Biblical Garden and a mission garden, growing food to share with hungry folks in their area.
A Garden Club at Liberty Presbyterian Church, a country church about 12 miles north of downtown Columbus, OH has started work on a Biblical Garden. Marvin Languis has been gathering information from us for their garden designer, Tom Wood. http://www.libertybarnchurch.com/home.html
Garden page: http://www.libertybarnchurch.com/pathway.html
Rev. Ken Crossman, a retired United Methodist Pastor, is working with Pastor Bryan Fulwider of First Congregational Church, Winter Park, FL to plan a Bible garden. They plan to break ground on January 1, 2002. A great way to start the new year!
Rita Giu has been hard at work constructing a Bible Garden near Niagra Falls in Canada.
Peggy Palmer started a Faith Garden in Douglasville, Georgia in 1998.
Mary Jo Gibson is working with her son on an Eagle Scout project of replacing biblical plants in their church garden: St. James Lutheran Church near the small town of Wapwallopen in southern Luzerne County of Pennsylvania.
Mary Lou Froehle of Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Petersburg, Indiana has been making plans for a Bible Garden there.
The First Congregational Church of Vernon, CT, is establishing a Children's Biblical Garden. They will be planting in the spring of 2001 if all goes well!
The Parkside Lutheran Church in Buffalo, New York, is hoping to install a Biblical Garden with the encouragement of one of their Deacons.
The church school of the Charlotte, VT, Congregational Church was hoping to start up a children's Biblical Garden in the summer of 2000 and give food to the area food shelf.
St. Joseph's School, Keyport, NJ has applied to the National Gardening Association to be considered a grant-winner in its 17th Annual Youth Garden grants competition to be awarded in late January 2000.
With the supervision of Keyport Master Gardener, Sidney Becnel, three elementary school classes will each be responsible for its own garden, based on three gardens mentioned in the Old and New Testaments: the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden of the Resurrection (Matt.27: 59-60). The purposes of the gardens will be based on demonstration of a child-centered plan that emphasizes children directly learning and working in an outdoor garden.
According to Master Gardener Becnel, the cathedrals of the middle ages employed statuary and stained glass to teach the illiterate but fervent peoples. Today another 'up close' teaching tool may well be those plants and flowers, clustered together, which speak to aspects of the circumstances surrounding these specific Biblical gardens. For instance, although the Scriptures never gave us a name of the rock garden where Joseph of Arimathea had his own up-scale mausoleum personally carved, it must have been aesthetically pleasing. We can imagine hens & chicks growing in between the rocks.
You will also find many photos, some seeds, interesting articles and more at a very professional website: BiblicalGardens.com Their selection of plants that might be included in a biblical garden is much more relaxed than the plants we have been convinced to include.
