Bravo to Jeff Rarick, a mechanical engineering student at Syracuse, who not only motivated his church to start gardening, he is in the process of securing up to a dozen acres off church property to grow produce to donate to a church food bank as well as the Salvation Army.
He has big plans for this project: he says he needs 100 volunteers for every acre of land, plus a $28,000 budget to make the farm productive. But he already has gotten a landowner to let him farm his land for free, if he gets insurance and proper supervision for the project.
As he told Syracuse.com, "When I say God's hand is on this project, I really mean it because there's miracles happening that are so random, I think that is the word, that you can't ignore the fact that God is helping out," he said.
Do you know any "growers in the spirit?" Please send 'em my way!
