Burns Best Farm

Gardening @ Church

I love reading about the churches our blog community attends.  If you haven't been visiting my blog for long, you might not know that my family lives a double life:  we live in the suburbs during the week where my husband actually drives down into the urban jungle for his work.  But we farm on the weekends.  Sometimes it's only on Saturdays. 

We have churches in both places.  In the suburbs, our church is a big megachurch.  We have a large group of home school families and the moms have a wonderful support group that meets monthly.  The church also allows us to use classroon facilities for home school classes one day of the week where we can enroll our kids in classes that we might not be able to teach as effectively at home.  My kids take Spanish and chess, both of which I am clueless to teach, and they take PE in a gym with lots of other kids, not necessarily their own age.  Boys like to run and jump with other boys. That is an undeniable truth of life.  The whole program is a great outreach to our community and the classes and parents each do one hour of service to the Body of Christ per semester.

Our big church has granted our home school school the privilege of offering a gardening class and I am going to teach the class!  This is the first time I've taught within the school program and I'm excited and a bit nervous to get it going.  The kids will be starting seeds and I hope we'll have the equipment and the space to be able to at least get some peas and lettuces and spinach ripened before we break for summer.  Everything we grow will be donated to a local homeless kitchen (after the kids get to taste the fruits of their labor!)

So this is a new blogging topic for me.  The rest of this year will be focused on putting the class curriculum together and then we'll start in January with class. I'll have a lot more to say then.. Registration opens tomorrow.

Awesome!

02:20, 2006-Nov-9 .. Posted by CatherineAnn

What a fabulous opportunity for you and the children! Can't wait to hear more about it :) .

Cool

08:22, 2006-Nov-9 .. Posted by HSBFrontPorch

I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job teaching the gardening class. You'll probably have a bunch of mammas wanting to join it too!
~Nancy

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09:08, 2006-Nov-10 .. Posted by freye

Enjoyed much of your BLOG
But as I am not too well I can't stay on computer too long! Immune system.....
God bless your day