Congregations tend the soil and the soul with vegetable gardens
Volunteers harvest at Holy Name Church in Cedar Lake, Ind. Photo by Debra Rubin
(RNS) Citing a line from Leviticus 25, “for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with me,” Chicago's Robert Nevel spearheaded a congregational garden to benefit a local soup kitchen, saying, "We need to be stewards of the land.”