UPDATE on Partners:
Philadelphia Office (continued)
food security.” This summer, SOLID ROCK’s site
manager, Amanda Johnson, will create the beginnings
of an “edible forest garden” orchard for children’s
education. POP will work with Johnson and SOLID
ROCK church members throughout the coming year to
plant fruit trees and berry bushes on an acre of unused
green space in the front and back of the church by
spring of 2014. POP Director Phil Forsyth predicts that
the orchard will yield about 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of
fruit – a massive supplement to the congregation’s food
distribution program, which feeds over 200 community
members every other week.
The Food in Sacred Places program requires low
monetary and labor inputs but produces a high return:
community health improves, grassroots activism
around food access and nutrition increases, and
congregations actively utilize all the spaces they have,
further cementing their roles as community centers.
Philadelphia Advisors
The Reverend Dr. Roy G. Almquist
Charles B. Casper, Esq.
Lary Ceisler
Helen Cunningham
The Reverend Yvette B. Davis
Scott Doyle
James Flaherty
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