farming
Once protected by its remoteness, a sacred lake in Kyrgyzstan is threatened by change
By Diana Kruzman — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — On the shores of Issyk Kul are more than 130 sacred sites, including trees, mountain peaks, hot springs and tombs of important figures. But the region itself, says one local expert, represents the sacred unity of nature and humanity.
Love and compassion: How women can address the climate crisis
By Ellen Bernstein — September 19, 2023
(RNS) — Possibilities open up when we think about the warming Earth with love, not fear.
A grain farmer applies Buddhist principles to preserve the land — and maximize taste
By Shaina Shealy — April 12, 2023
(RNS) — Food and farming have always served as outlets for Mai Nguyen’s Buddhist practice. But a decade ago the Californian applied the faith's teachings of interconnectedness to a holistic approach to farming.
Bringing the Torah’s ‘Sabbath of the land’ to Jewish American farmers
By Sara Badilini — April 22, 2022
(RNS) — The tradition of shmita, a Jewish answer to how to fight climate change, is spreading beyond Israel.
Zimbabwean nonprofit promotes ‘God’s way’ of farming
By Kathryn Post — October 27, 2021
(RNS) — Foundations for Farming has helped Zimbabwe experience its first food surplus in two decades.
Pray.com supports family farms hit by historic droughts
By Kathryn Post — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We have a responsibility to tend to the land. It’s really not just about California, it’s about the entire country,’ said Pray.com’s CEO.
California date farmers lean into Ramadan season’s spike in sales
By Joseph Hammond — April 20, 2021
(RNS) — With the number of Muslims growing in the United States, dates sold at Ramadan have become a major focus of date growers' business.
In a rural corner of Britain, a farm reconnects Judaism with the land
By Catherine Pepinster — May 10, 2019
(RNS) — At Sadeh, a farm in Kent, Talia Chain and her small staff are reconnecting Judaism with its agricultural roots and biblical principles of growing food.
Black network’s farm-to-church movement brings fresh food to Baltimore
By Adelle M. Banks — April 20, 2018
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The Rev. Heber Brown III, founder of the Black Church Food Security Network, says that 'food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries will not change the underlying conditions that have our community hungry in the first place.'
Cultivating the connection between soil and the soul with ‘FaithLands’
By Kimberly Winston — April 10, 2018
PAICINES, Calif. (RNS) — When 40 faith-based farmers gathered for a first-of-its-kind weekend at a working ranch near San Jose, they sought nothing less than a complete disruption of how food is grown, distributed and even served.
Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college
By Judith Valente — February 5, 2016
(RNS) The 81-year-old writer decides against teaming up with a large university agricultural program, and instead selects a small Catholic liberal arts college run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
Kenya’s Catholic Church to fight hunger by farming its vast land reserves
By Fredrick Nzwili — March 10, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Since 1970, Kenya has faced repeated droughts, which experts say are more frequent, shorter in duration but more intense.
New book recounts church gardening as peacemaking ministry
By Yonat Shimron — August 13, 2013
BREVARD, N.C. (RNS) “The Christianity I grew up with was about a personal relationship with Jesus,” says Fred Bahnson, a godfather of the church garden movement. “Our care for the Earth never seemed to enter the conversation.”
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