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Community
Supported Garden
The
Community Supported Garden at La Vista will
serve as a source of renewal for human
social and physical health through providing
healthy, nutritious food, by the building of
a diverse community, and through the
practice of social justice.
We will
demonstrate a model for diversified,
sustainable, small-scale community supported
agriculture through being responsible
stewards of the land and through supporting
the efforts of and a just compensation for
the farmer.
We will
respect the soil, water and air through
organic methods of growing, by conserving
water and through reducing fossil fuel
emissions into the air.
 We will grow
in harmony with the other-than-human species
present here through a consciousness of and
care for this local region of life,
considering the ecosystem when making our
decisions and collaborating with other
organizations in promoting life.
We recognize
that both this land and a sense of mission
are pure gift. With insight we ponder that
these opportunities to plant, to cultivate,
to harvest and to share are themselves
revelations of the Divine. We associate
ourselves with this part of the Great Work*
and are blessed with wonder and awe.
This project
is also supported by
the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
It flows from the Oblate priority of
"Justice, Peace and the Integrity of
Creation".
* "The
Great Work now, as we move into a new
millennium, is to carry out the transition
from a period of human devastation of the
Earth to a period when humans would be
present to the planet in a beneficial
manner."
--Thomas Berry in
The Great
Work, Bell
Tower Publishing, 1999.
Community Supported Garden at La Vista
4350 Levis Lane
Godfrey, IL 62035
(618) 467-2104
email:
garden@lavista.org
www.lavistaCSAorg
www.lavistaELC.org
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