Anathoth Community Garden

Board of Directors

Ed Collins, Board Chair

• Former Vice President of Medical Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline
• Resident of Cedar Grove, Member of Cedar Grove UMC

Geof Gledhill, Treasurer

• Owner-Operator, with his wife Jane, of Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm raising fruit and grass-fed beef 
• Mostly-retired lawyer with Coleman, Gledhill, Hargrave & Merit, Hillsborough, NC
• Resident of Cedar Grove, Member of Cedar Grove UMC

Ann Talton-Lee, Fundraising Chair

• Director of Medical Services and North American Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline
• Resident of Cedar Grove

Rev. Jeremy Troxler

• Director, Thriving Rural Communities Initiative at Duke Divinity School
• Resident of Mebane, Attendee of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church

Rev. Karl Grant

• Pastor, Cedar Grove United Methodist Church

Advisory Council

Fred Bahnson

• Co-Founder Anathoth Community Garden and 2009-10 IATP Food & Community Fellow
• Co-Author, “Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation” and “Soil and Sacrament: Four Season Among the Keepers of the Earth”

Dr. Norman Wirzba

• Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life, Duke University Divinity School
• Author, “Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating” and “The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age”

Scenobia Taylor

• Visionary and long-time community leader
• Land donor to Anathoth Community Garden

Staff

Chas Edens, Director

Chas is native to North Carolina and a graduate of NC State University where he received a BS in Horticulture with a Landscape Design concentration. He was formerly the Co-Farm Manager at Peacehaven Community Farm; a sustainable farm in the Piedmont Triad connecting people with disabilities to their community, and, currently, he is pursuing a Master of Arts in Christian Studies at Duke Divinity School. He lives with his wife, Hannah, and beagle in a cabin on Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm, 1.5 miles down the road from the garden.












Matthew Case, Duke Divinity School Field Education Intern

Matthew is in his first year of seminary, focusing his ministry and education on Church unity and reconciliation.  After graduating in 2009 with a BS in Biobehavioral Health, from The Pennsylvania State University, Matthew moved to San Francisco to help develop an urban ministry and to work with local non-profits.  Recently, he has spent the past two years working in Pittsburgh, PA as an adoption therapist and social worker.  Matthew is enjoying his divinity school experience and is loving getting his hands dirty in the garden.