Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden

E very time you sit down for a meal, you’re supporting a food system that has reverberating effects on God’s creation. Farming policies and practices can help or harm God’s creation—it all comes down to who does the farming and how. Does the farmer care... More

E very time you sit down for a meal, you’re supporting a food system that has reverberating effects on God’s creation. Farming policies and practices can help or harm God’s creation—it all comes down to who does the farming and how. Does the farmer care about the long-term sustainability of the farm and its ability to produce food and a livelihood for future generations? How the land is farmed impacts air, water, soil, animals, and people and is inextricably linked to the health and well-being of God’s creation—human and nonhuman. INTRODUCTION We live in a time of industrial agriculture where, for many of us, family farms no longer hold a current or central place in our own personal family story. The average meal has ingredients that have traveled 1,500 miles to our table. Grocery stores are where most of us get our food, making it hard to connect the items we purchase to the dirt in which they grew. While we fill our shopping carts with pre-packaged commercial produce, we walk t Less