States such as Minnesota and South Dakota are offering suicide prevention training to clergy – a crucial, trusted presence in rural America. In the farmland, churches remain essential social gathering points.
Black Church Food Security Network is helping congregations establish gardens and farmers markets on church-owned land, and then the nonprofit connects them with black-owned farms and urban growers throughout the mid-Atlantic.
PAICINES, Calif. (RNS) — Sometimes a tomato isn’t just a salad ingredient. Sometimes it’s a call to action.
That’s the revolutionary idea of about 40 farmers