Publications & Guides
- Community Garden Connections Education Manual: A year-round manual for guiding the educational growth of garden leaders (214 pages, PDF, Lead Author: Libby Weiland Principal Editors/Contributors: Susan Baron, Maisie Rinne, Allan Pearce, Monica Foley, and Libby McCann)
- Cultivating Community: Notes from Come to the Table’s “Cultivating Community: Starting a Congregation-Sponsored Community Garden,” November, 2007. (PDF)
- Community Garden fact sheet: From Come to the Table
- Gardening Basics. Link submitted by Mrs. C’s Gardening High School Club
- Gardening 101: Tips for Starting a Garden: Submitted by EcoWatch.com
Helpful Links
- NC Cooperative Extension Community Garden Website
- American Community Gardening Association
- National Gardening Association
- Growing Small Farms: Planting schedules, pest control and other info for central North Carolina farms
Faith-Led Gardens in the News
- By the Square Foot (on square-foot gardening and the St. Anne’s Episcopal Church Peace Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, June 6, 2009
- Church Turning Eyesore into a Garden (on Main Street United Methodist’s Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, May 31, 2009
- Planting the Seed (on gardens including one at Concord United Methodist Church) – The (Burlington)Times-News, May 22, 2009
- Gardens Yield Food, Fruit of the Spirit (on Triangle gardens – Covenant, Anathoth, Simple Gifts and Interfaith Food Shuttle) – The (Raleigh) News and Observer, April 19, 2009
- Seeds of Joy (on Anathoth Community Garden) – Winston-Salem Journal, Feb. 14, 2009
- Share Work and Harvest (on Covenant Community Garden)- The News and Observer, July 27, 2008
- Seagrove Community Garden Receives Grant from Fiskars – The Courier-Tribune, March 2, 2008
- A Garden Becomes a Protest: The Field at Anathoth – Orion Magazine, July, 2007
Our Favorite Garden Books
- How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, by John Jeavons
- The Sustainable Vegetable Garden:A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soils and Higher Yields, by John Jeavons and Carol Cox
- Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener, by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy
- The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals, by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley
- The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, by Eliot Coleman and Francis Blake
- Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, and Kathy Bray
- All New Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew
- Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden by Sally Jean Cunningham
- Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! by Patricia Lanza
- Simply in Season Cookbook, by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
- Simply in Season Children’s Cookbook, by Mark Beach and Julie Kauffman
- Stocking Up: The Third Edition of America’s Classic Preserving Guide, by Carol Hupping
- Community Gardening (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide), by Elizabeth Tehle Peters and Ellen Kirby
- Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread, ed. Michael Schut
- The Essential Agrarian Reader, ed. Norman Wirzba
- Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen Davis, forward by Wendell Berry