Food and Faith Stories
- Farmers' Markets - Rose City Park Presbyterian Church of Portland, OR hosts the Hollywood Farmer's Market every Saturday morning.
- Farmer’s Markets A new coupon program called "That's My Farmer" was started this year in Benton County, OR. St. Mary Catholic Parish, First Congregational United Church of Christ, First United Methodist, Monroe United Methodist and the Corvallis Mennonite Fellowship sell coupons after services and in church offices which are redeemable at local farmers’ markets.
- Community Supported Agriculture - Community United Church of Christ in Champaign, Illinois bought three shares from a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm and distributes fresh and local food to local social services organizations every week.
- Community Gardens - Click here to read an article that originially appeared in Disciples Today about three different congregations and their approaches to community gardens.
- Co-ops Whole Farm Cooperative, Inc. of Long Prairie, MN is an organization owned by family farmers, whose objective is to sell sustainably produced foods to its community members..
- Fair Trade First United Methodist Church in Tacoma, WA operates a store called “Ends of the Earth” which sells only fair trade items.
- Maine Council of Churches launched "Be a Good Apple!" on Earth Day Sabbath (April 23, 2006) as a way for Maine congregations and their members to focus on and increase food security and independence within their local communities and to help build economically and environmentally sustainable and just communities as they connect with and support their neighbor farmers. The project involves individual households pledging to make $10 weekly purchases of Maine foods.
- Our Father's Garden is the principal mission of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Baton Rouge, LA. On 4 acres of land, is the church office, the Mission and Ministry Center, and the Garden, where parishioners and local volunteers raise vegetables, fruit, and fish which are given to Mother Teresa's Missionary Sisters of Charity in downtown Baton Rouge to help feed the hungry.