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  • Worship
    • Worship & Formation
    • What to Expect
    • Sermons
    • Serving on Sundays
    • Who we are >
      • Message from the Rector
      • About Us
      • Staff
      • Vestry >
        • Annual Meeting
        • Missional Priorities
        • Communication Guidelines
        • By-Laws
        • Minutes
    • Photo Galleries >
      • 2022 Parish Picnic
      • Summer Small Groups 2022
      • Confirmation-Parish Picnic 2021 Gallery
      • Parish Fair 2021
      • Sundaes on Saturday
      • Fresh Air Fellowship Cataloochee
      • 2020 Picnic & Baptisms Gallery
      • Parish Fair 2017
    • Calendar
    • Daily Office
  • Serve
    • Congregational Care
    • Outreach >
      • Food Pantry >
        • Food Pantry Hours
      • Grace Giving Garden
    • Creation Care Ministry
    • Memorial Garden >
      • Pet Wall
    • Daughters of the King
    • Marthas
    • Buildings and Grounds
    • Resources
  • Learn
    • Teach Us To Pray >
      • Centering Prayer
      • Prayer of the Imagination
      • Jesus Prayer
      • The Examen
      • Lectio Devina
      • Body Prayer
      • Prayerful Art
    • Formation >
      • Episcopal Church 101
      • Resources
    • Children & Youth >
      • Nursery
      • Children
      • Youth Group
  • Give
    • Ways to Give
    • Give Online
    • Stewardship Statement
    • Annual Giving >
      • Pledge to Weaving Grace Together (Treasure)
      • Pledge to Weaving Grace Together (Time & Talent )
    • The Science of Generosity
    • Legacy of Grace Endowment
    • Stock Donations
  • Resources
    • Reading the Gospels During Lent
    • Addiction Recover Resources
    • Community Conversations about Suicide
    • Connect with us Online
    • Parish Program Planning Checklist
    • Forms >
      • Coffee Hour Sign up
      • Prayer Requests
      • Altar Flower Order Form
      • Nametag Order Form
      • Membership Database Information Form
      • Nursery/Sunday School Registration
      • Application for Rent/Use of Facilities
      • Application for Fundraising Activity Event
      • Check Request Reimbursement Form

Grace Giving Garden

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​Growing and Sharing God's Bounty in Fellowship & Learning with All 

Grace Giving Garden wins National Contest and $1000 prize!

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Grace Giving Garden Updates
On Saturday, November 6, the Grace Giving Garden held its last “official” workday of the 2021 year. About 15 volunteers showed up for four hours, some for more. The morning went extra fast and though it was chilly when we began, the weather turned glorious and everyone had a wonderful time gardening, getting to know some new volunteers and visiting with longtime friends as we played outdoors together.
Read the full update

Certification Awards in the Grace Giving Garden and Summer 2021
For the past two summers we have focused on growing more vegetables for the Grace Food Pantry. We were able to safely garden with youth on our monthly garden days, and with the help of two groups of teens from Camp Henry, we've just harvested garlic, potatoes, collards and onions and are busy planting our fall crops even as our beans, okra and squash begin to mature. We've also increased our pollinator and wildlife friendly plantings so that now, in addition to being a certified Monarch Waystation, we are certified as one of the Million Pollinator Gardens in the U.S. and also as a National Federation of Wildlife garden. You can visit the Grace Giving Garden anytime of the year but especially when flowers are blooming and our veggies are producing. We hope to see you there soon.
Contact us to learn how you can participate.

What is the GGG?  
Over the last ten years the Grace Giving Garden has expanded from a “one-plot Wee Weeders” church garden to a multi-bed Creation Care and teaching garden for the entire community of Waynesville. We are ever changing. Currently we have an herb garden, fruit trees and blueberry bushes, pollinator beds for bees and butterflies (especially Monarchs), and various native and other perennial flowers and ornamental shrubs interspersed among 6 raised beds, one high raised bed for gardeners with mobility challenges, and a field bed for larger summer vegetable production to serve the church Food Pantry. Our harvests regularly include beans, lettuces, collards and other greens, okra, onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, candy roaster squash and flowers. We compost year-round to turn vegetable matter and
leaves back into beautiful, rich soil for the garden beds. Learn more about composting here.
 
Covering most of the area behind Grace Church, the GGG hardscape also includes a large garden shed, two picnic tables, and a teaching amphitheater built by Tuscola High School masonry students. We are proud of our drip irrigation system, which is fed by a 1,000-gallon rainwater cistern (donated by the Soil & Water Conservation District and installed with their help and the help of Haywood Waterways volunteers).

Who gardens in the GGG? 
People from Grace Church and all over our community plant, maintain, and harvest vegetables that they and our food pantry guests enjoy. On M-W-F from late Spring through Fall, between 10-11:00 a.m. we pick organic produce. Any extra produce goes to Meals on Wheels of Haywood County.

How do we do what we do? 
 
We garden with people just like you!  Our teaching volunteers are experienced, lifelong and Master Gardeners. Many volunteers are simply folks who want to be outdoors and garden with nice people. We are ready to teach anytime we’re in the garden but also on schedule we work with groups. With pandemic restrictions easing, we have regular monthly garden days on Saturdays.

 Why do we do it?  
It’s our wish that people everywhere not lose touch with the earth, that they develop love and respect for all aspects of nature, and understand that God’s gifts to us are precious. 
Isn’t it our responsibility to preserve and protect the earth so it can continue to sustain all life?  We think so. To further our mission, we recently joined with the Grace Church Creation Care ministry to attend conferences, partner with other area churches and local Climate Crisis groups and host a variety of environmental stewardship activities. Find more information about our Creation Care efforts here. 

Where are we? 
Grace Giving Garden is located behind Grace Church in the Mountains (394 N. Haywood Street), and easy entrance is by a driveway on Miller Street. You'll see our sign—and the entrance to our garden—by the stone walk at the top of the parking lot. 

Questions? Contact us.

 Worship Times
Sunday

8:00am in person and live stream
9:15am Adult formation in person and on Zoom
10:30am in person
Children's Sunday- 1st Sundays @ 10:30 am
​Taize Service - 1st Sundays @ 7:00 pm


Wednesday
12:00 pm Eucharist + Healing Service
Grace Church in the Mountains
394 N. Haywood Street, Waynesville, North Carolina 28786 • Phone: (828) 456-6029   Email: admin@gracewaynesville.com
Pastoral Emergency: (828)558-0246
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