* Take a glimpse of the Rodef Shalom Biblical Gardens covering 1/3 acre of land in Pittsburg, PA. Inspiring! .http://rodefshalom.org
Take a tour through the Temple Sinai Biblical Gardens in Newport News, VA at http://www.ujcvp.org/temple_sinai/bulletin04-00.html
Read about The Biblical Herb Garden at Franciscan Monastery, Washington, DC
http://www.pressroom.com/~franciscan/Garden_Guild/mission.htm
The most recent project begun by the Garden Guild is planting of an herb garden at the friary entrance. The choice of herbs is based on Biblical references.
* Dolores Merkel's daughter is also designing a Biblical Garden near Columbus at St. Michael's Parish in Worthington, Ohio. The Rev. Arthur Hadley, rector of the church reports on the array of gardens there: Eden, Egypt, Sinai, Land of Milk and Honey, and more.(2/02) Visit their page!
Maize Manor United Methodist Church in Columbus, OH has a courtyard garden which they are in the process of transforming into a 3 season, mostly biblical garden. They are also working on a binder detailing the story of the plants there.
September 30, 2002: This summer we had such heat in central Ohio that we focused on maintaining plantings and did fairly well. Now we're into trimming some major shrubs and doing a little realigning of the old beds to allow for some change - with a pocket full of friends we hope to make a small impact this fall and add some more changes in the spring - year one under our belts - our labeling project is slowly progressing but I did not get my information pages started-but I'm back and ready to go now! Thanks so much for the up dates and when I get a good picture I'll share it... we're basically an emerging entity with a lot of potential!!! -Sandy Anthony
Inniswood Metro Gardens in Westerville, OH has a Biblical garden room in their herb gardens. http://www.inniswood.org/
* Oakpark Conservatory in Oak Park, IL includes a Desert House featuring a Biblical Garden. Get a peek at http://www.oprf.com/conservatory/desert.html
* Warsaw Biblical Garden, Warsaw, Indiana. A city block has been transformed into a marvelous Biblical garden with a range of ecosystems. Splendid web site. Link to other Biblical Gardens. http://www.warsawbiblicalgardens.org/
Diana Wilson has designed a glorious Biblical Garden for the Baptist church in Conroe, TX. Enjoy her beautiful design on this page!
Get a taste of the Biblical Gardens at Temple Beth Shalom in Sun City, AZ with a couple of breathtaking photos and a bit of history about their project if the page is available. http://home.earthlink.net/~tbsaz/
There are Biblical Gardens at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Read about the church here: http://www.fpcnashville.org/
* Also in the south, Magnolia Plantation Biblical garden in Charlestown, SC http://www.magnoliaplantation.com/gardens/index.html
* Enjoy a musical rendition of "In the Garden" while taking an overview of the Biblical Garden at the First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville, FL . http://gnv.fdt.net/~hpc/garden/
Also in Florida, St. James Lutheran Church Biblical Garden is blooming away in Coral Gables. Read about it at http://www.st-james-church.org/garden.html Take a peek at http://www.st-james-church.org/garden1.html
In Orlando, FL, Barb & Guy have created a butterfly garden and are developing a Walk Through the Torah garden. See their page!
Worldwide sites:
* Neot Kedumim Biblical Land Preserve. Lod, Israel. This organization operates a phenomenal 625 acre nature reserve in Israel with plants, wine presses, and so many facets of Biblical life there to experience. The most phenomenal place in the world! Website is inspiring! . http://www.neot-kedumim.org.il/
* Also in Israel, the Yad-Hashmona Biblical Gardens, a part of a hotel-convention center complex about 15 km. west of Jerusalem, hosts a wine press, coin press, oil press, watchtower, wheat press, Bedouin tent and New Testament era synagogue. Presently their site is not functioning well.
* Brickman’s Country Gardens near Ontario, Canada has a website promoting a biblical garden. Take a look at http://granite.sentex.net/~lwr/brickman.html
The Biblical garden at temple Emanu-El in North York Ontario, Canada features a fountain, pools, a number of biblical trees, vines and flowers. http://www.temanuel.com/history.htm
* Enjoy photos of the Biblical Gardens in Elgin, Scotland featuring bronze sculptures, architectural elements, beautiful gardens. For many more wonderful images (no text) go to: http://www.duffus.com/Duffus+2000/biblical_garden/ i
Not to Miss!
* Explore a very promising website with lots of articles, photos, Bible references about biblical gardens. http://www.biblicalgardens.org
Check out beautiful Monastic Gardens on their own page!
Folks Involved in Biblical Gardening who are in touch by Email.
About EIGHTY different folks are now in the midst of Biblical Gardens creation to the best we know. These friends have agreed to share their news! Would you like to tell your story and even better send us some photos to post? Yes!
Nera Monastery in Romania is making plans to construct a Biblical Garden and is hoping for friends to support the project. If you would like to help, you may contact Re. Evloghie at naturalia@xnet.ro
A couple in Lusaka Zambia has contacted out church to help them establish a 10 acre Biblical Garden on their land for the inspiration and instruction of their neighbors.
Nina Mitchell in Glen Burie, MD started planning a Biblical garden within her own home gardens this September. Nina who finds gardening tremendously renewing (like so many of us) is naming this plot "My Biblical Paradise."
Karen Draycot has begun designing and constructing a Biblical Garden at St. Giles Church, Thrapston, Northants, England.
The Thomason Family in northern California has bought a plot of land as in developing it as a Biblical Garden and a mission garden, growing food to share with hungry folks in their area.
A Garden Club at Liberty Presbyterian Church, a country church about 12 miles north of downtown Columbus, OH has started work on a Biblical Garden. Marvin Languis has been gathering information from us for their garden designer, Tom Wood. To contact the church, mail to: libertychurch@sprynet.com
Rev. Ken Crossman, a retired United Methodist Pastor, is working with Pastor Bryan Fulwider of First Congregational Church, Winter Park, FL to plan a Bible garden. They plan to break ground on January 1, 2002. A great way to start the new year!
Rita Giu has been hard at work constructing a Bible Garden near Niagra Falls in Canada.
Peggy Palmer started a Faith Garden in Douglasville, Georgia in 1998.
Mary Jo Gibson is working with her son on an Eagle Scout project of replacing biblical plants in their church garden: St. James Lutheran Church near the small town of Wapwallopen in southern Luzerne County of Pennsylvania.
Mary Lou Froehle of Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Petersburg, Indiana has been making plans for a Bible Garden there.
The First Congregational Church of Vernon, CT, is establishing a Children's Biblical Garden. They will be planting in the spring of 2001 if all goes well!
The Parkside Lutheran Church in Buffalo, New York, is hoping to install a Biblical Garden with the encouragement of one of their Deacons.
The church school of the Charlotte, VT, Congregational Church was hoping to start up a children's Biblical Garden in the summer of 2000 and give food to the area food shelf.
St. Joseph's School, Keyport, NJ has applied to the National Gardening Association to be considered a grant-winner in its 17th Annual Youth Garden grants competition to be awarded in late January 2000.
With the supervision of Keyport Master Gardener, Sidney Becnel, three elementary school classes will each be responsible for its own garden, based on three gardens mentioned in the Old and New Testaments: the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden of the Resurrection (Matt.27: 59-60). The purposes of the gardens will be based on demonstration of a child-centered plan that emphasizes children directly learning and working in an outdoor garden.
According to Master Gardener Becnel, the cathedrals of the middle ages employed statuary and stained glass to teach the illiterate but fervent peoples. Today another 'up close' teaching tool may well be those plants and flowers, clustered together, which speak to aspects of the circumstances surrounding these specific Biblical gardens. For instance, although the Scriptures never gave us a name of the rock garden where Joseph of Arimathea had his own up-scale mausoleum personally carved, it must have been aesthetically pleasing. We can imagine hens & chicks growing in between the rocks.
You will also find many photos, some seeds, interesting articles and more at a very professional website: BiblicalGardens.com Their selection of plants that might be included in a biblical garden is much more relaxed than the plants we have been convinced to include.
