Category Archives: Baltimore

Baltimore, BCFSN Membership, Black Church, Church Garden, Coordinating Committees, Maryland, Popular Education

Cultivating Community Power In Baltimore

Posted on by Black Church FSN
08
Aug

Cultivating community power in historically marginalized and oppressed communities is often very slow and thoughtful work.  There is no microwave for building “people power” in communities that have often been robbed of their power and voice.  It happens one meeting at a time, one conversation at a time, one event at a time.  It’s very […]

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Baltimore, Church Garden, Coordinating Committees, Maryland

Baltimore Chapter Picking Up Steam!

Posted on by Black Church FSN
28
Jun

Black churches that work together to grow food in a systematic way can do far more to create sustainable solutions for food apartheid than they can if they only work by themselves.  That’s one of the messages that was communicated and demonstrated on Sunday, June 26, 2022 at Liberty Grace Church of God in West […]

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Baltimore, Church Garden, Maryland

Baltimore Area Church Gardens Unite!

Posted on by Black Church FSN
24
Jun

When churches start gardens they run into very predictable problems like: not having a water source not having enough consistent laborers not having seeds not knowing what to grow and when not having sustained support from the congregation not knowing where to start When the “faithful few” who initially started the garden don’t get the […]

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Baltimore, BCFSN Membership, Black Church, Church Garden, Maryland

Progress Report: Shiloh Baptist Church (Baltimore)

Posted on by Black Church FSN
25
May

In 2017, we partnered with Bishop Heber Brown, II and the Shiloh Baptist Church of Edgemere, Maryland (20 minutes from Baltimore City) to launch a garden on their campus.  The garden ministry began with much flair and excitement.  Many members of the congregation were inspired by the effort given their experiences growing up down south.  […]

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