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Full day photo shoot at the Anathoth Community Garden and Farm in Cedar Grove, NC for The Duke Endowment Friday, July 7, 2017. Photo by JASON E. MICZEK - www.miczekphoto.com

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We did it! Thank you to everyone who helped us rea

We did it! Thank you to everyone who helped us reach our year-end fundraising goal. Happy New Year's Eve!

Today is the last day for our end of year fundrais

Today is the last day for our end of year fundraiser. Thank you again so much for reading, looking, donating, and journeying with us this week as we share about Anathoth in 2020. If you have been waiting, today is the day!

There is so much that we couldn’t have foreseen and didn’t expect, and now 2021 looms. In the midst of all the unknown, Anathoth is forging ahead and we need your help! We are currently in the process of hiring a new Executive Director (see the job description on our website!) to help us sustain this sacred place that so many have found community, friendship, and growth. We are also looking for new Board members, you can apply on our website!

We are also laying plans for the garden itself. Vegetable and flower beds have been tucked in for winter, neighbors have been laying plans to clean up our orchard. The garden is waiting for new life and we hope that as COVID19 wanes we can gather again for fellowship.

And even as we wait, we are building. We purchased a high tunnel through a generous grant and have begun construction. High tunnels offer cost effective ways for farmers to control growing environments and extend growing seasons. Our goal is to continue to establish infrastructure at the garden that will yield harvest for the community for years to come.

We hope that you will come and build with us.

Today is Day 4 of 5 of our Countdown to 2021 Fund

Today is Day 4 of 5 of our Countdown to 2021 Fundraiser. We have $1,365 left to raise to meet our match! Donate today at www.anathothgarden.org/donate

Anathoth Youth
Youth have been a vital part of Anathoth from our beginnings. Whether in the simplicity of joining parents and friends for work days or zipping down the hill on a homemade slip-n-slide on hot afternoons, there have always been young adults at the garden. As the garden grew we introduced a series of more formal programs to invite young people to join us in learning to tend land, grow vegetables, and work in the Cedar Grove community.

For the past decade Anathoth has run a paid internship program where young adults ages 15-19 joined us for 10 weeks in the summer to learn gardening/farming, culinary, and community-building skills, while growing fruits and vegetables to distribute throughout the community. Recruiting from Orange County high schools and friends of the garden, every year saw a new batch of youth who braved the heat to work and learn together. Our teen interns learn how to grow and prepare food, business marketing skills through managing a Community Supported Agriculture program, personal finance management with bi-weekly paychecks, and how to work collaboratively with a diverse group of people.

Jakayla, a summer 2015 teen intern, said of her internship, “I am overwhelmed with the amount of positivity, strength, endurance, kindness and passion that I have seen this summer. I have never seen a group of people so giving and with such a wanting to be a source of upliftment for someone …I have not always had that in my life but Anathoth has been a place of acceptance and understanding for me.”

In 2020 we took a break from youth programming due to the COVID 19 pandemic, but hope to welcome them back into our midst soon to keep on growing food together for years to come.

A generous donor has offered to match our funds u

A generous donor has offered to match our funds up to $5,000 to meet our goal of $10,000. Help us meet our match by raising the remaining $2,390 by December 31st at Midnight!

Rethinking fundraising: In 2019, the Anathoth staff and board started to ask some hard questions about how we had been operating in recent years as we had grown. We knew we wanted Anathoth to be a restorative and meaningful place. We knew the future vision of Anathoth needed to be driven by the needs and hopes from the local Cedar Grove community rather than shaped by people who lived in urban spaces. And so we began to scale back our high-production-focused business model and returned to only farming the land that was part of the original gift (rather than renting additional land). This allowed us to localize ourselves back to our original vision and to serve the local community more effectively. We also transitioned our traditional and beloved end of year fundraiser, Thanks-for-Giving (a $100/plate farm-to-table dinner and auction in Durham) into a “fun-raiser” - a laid back party at the garden. We didn’t make as much money but it felt deeply right to have the party in Cedar Grove and to have far more folks from Cedar Grove come.

We started this year with so many open questions about who we are and who we want to be - but then our questions for ourselves and for this year narrowed as the pandemic limited what we were able to do.

Mr. Willie - who lives around the corner from the garden - suggested in the early summer that we have a Fall Plant sale. This would be a way for us to further our mission of “growing food together” and helping to feed people during a pandemic. In a leap of faith as we piloted something new during an unprecedented year and we were delighted by the results! Not only did we raise funds, we reconnected with all kinds of folks who hadn’t been to the garden in years. We realized that the plant sale was a metaphor for what we hope Anathoth to be: a gathering place for people to be given what they need so that they can nurture the other places to which they have been called.

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