Songs of Praise

Songs of Praise

Harvest (2023x39)


Udgivelsesdato: Okt 01, 2023

Claire McCollum celebrates harvest at Hazelnut Community Farm in Bristol and hears how they’ve brought their church into the great outdoors with gardening as an act of worship. She speaks to founder Reverend John White about why he was inspired to set up Hazelnut, the ethos of sharing their harvest with the local community and how teaching sustainable growing techniques is at the heart of their Christian message. She also discovers how over 50% of the Hazelnut community is made up of members originally from Hong Kong and finds out why they wanted to get involved. Further afield, JB Gill is in Cambridgeshire, meeting a farmer from Zimbabwe whose faith has helped him take on a 350-acre farm and to grow white maize, a tropical crop normally never commercially grown in the UK. And back in Bristol, Claire joins in with an innovative project that uses Christianity to inspire children to tend to the land. She speaks to project lead Gigi about why it’s so important to teach sustainable growin

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  • Premieret: Jan 2013
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