Eden Project

Our Eden Project's
"Giving Garden" Initiative

The Green Team is continuing the Eden Project this Spring and Summer to accomplish several important sustainability goals:

Provide nutritious sustenance for the hungry in our community
Teach participants the skills to grow their own food
Reduce local carbon output by limiting the need for widely transported, store-bought produce that relies on industrial agriculture and extensive supply chains
Strengthen our partnership with Gardenworks, a local mission partner that provides materials and training for folks to cultivate their own gardens.

Church members and friends of the church may participate by planting a Giving Garden at their home, or borrowed space. We commit to plant at least 30 FCCGE household gardens where a portion of produce will be directed to local food pantries and individuals in need. Questions? Contact Nancy Bell.

Please sign up below to let us know you’d like to support the Eden project with a Growing Garden!

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Growing a Giving Garden

Food pantries need fresh produce. Food pantries are mostly reliant
on donations from food rescue organizations or charitable gifts from
the community, often near the end of shelf life. Fresh produce is often in high demand and choice is often limited. Join the movement
towards improved community health and greater food equity
within your region by donating produce from your garden this
year.

Eden Project Harvest

It’s that exciting time of the year when gardeners are harvesting their bounty (and not so joyfully sharing with various critters!). If you have herbs or produce to share with the Glen House Food Pantry we will be asking you to help us to track the donations when you drop it off via our online 2025 Eden Project form, when it becomes available. If you cannot drop-off your produce at the food pantry, bring it to church on Sunday mornings and deposit in the basket(s) provided and note your donation on the form alongside the produce basket. We will deliver your donation to the Glen House Food Pantry. Last year our Eden Project gardeners donated over 140 pounds of herbs and produce. Although they do not weigh much, herbs are a high-value produce item, very much treasured by food pantry shoppers.

FCCGE’s Hope Garden

In Bloom Now!!

Our Open and Affirming group and Green Team have collaborated and planted a Hope Garden to recognize Mental Health Awareness Week (May 12, 2025 – May 18, 2025). The Hope Garden concept stems from a youth-driven movement called The Yellow Tulip Project (YTP) to “smash the stigma surrounding mental illness” by planting gardens of yellow tulips. The garden, on the west side of our building, has been planted with yellow tulips which are currently in bloom!