Posts By: Andrew Kang Bartlett

On our trip through the Midwest we visited many Community Gardens and Urban “Farms”. (quotations mine) About halfway through the trip I became very frustrated that we weren’t seeing any of what I would label “real farms”. I wrote in…

The Food Chain Workers Alliance, who HEART met at the US Social Forum, sent this link to this so-bad-it’s-good music video about Andiamo Restaurant. Watch it and weep – or dance if you are a Lady Gaga fan…

The Covenanting for Justice Online Curriculum is based on the Accra Confession. It was developed by the North American Working Group for Covenanting for Justice of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) This group has also revamped the Accra…

New Heights Baptist Church in Louisville has allowed the Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program (RAPP) to use a large piece of their land so 42 refugee families can grow their own food and market the surpluses. Stephen Bartlett coordinates the gardening…

In the last two weeks I have been bombarded by sights and sounds, experiences and conversations that have left my head reeling with pain and relief. As a country girl living alone, in a quiet apartment, in a small tree…

by talitha… On the first day of the HEART trip, Jud Hendrix, our designated asker-of-spiritual-questions, asked us a deep one: If the roadtrip is the answer, what is the question? The question that immediately came to mind for me was…

Before leaving Detroit and the US Social Forum, the Road Trippers stopped by to stock up for the ride south and to check out this enormous farmers market.

Day 4 ~ Brevard and Asheville, NC Fred Bahnson, family farmer in Brevard, NC, is working with his wife Elizabeth to create a sustainable, organic, permaculture farm. Fred showing his trellis system. On the Bahnson porch hearing about Anathoth Garden….

Today we led a workshop at the US Social Forum! A lot of people came (thanks in part to aggressive recruitment tactics…) from various places and faith backgrounds. Here’s Talitha’s portion – speaking on the texts we connect to our…

We spent Friday, and Saturday morning, at the Rural Appalachian Improvement League (RAIL) in Mullens, West Virginia. This is a town of about 2,000 in the heart of coal country. We saw a few flat-topped mountains on our way in,…