Making a Difference

Imagine my surprise when looking online for directions I noticed that our neighborhood looked a little different than it used to.  A closer look reveals the images that used to predate our arrival in the neighborhood now reflect the height of our last growing season.  Another site has images from the first year we lived on the block.  All I can say is, WOW!  Check out the difference below.  If you have been following our progress and would like to help this transformation continue as well as providing healthy and affordable food to children and families in need, please click on the contribute link to make a secure, tax-deductible donation to the farm.

Grace and peace,

Rod

Matthew 25 I might have stopped to offer help

I might have stopped to offer help

But I was awfully busy

Plus how he was dressed mixed with thoughts of how he smelled

Made me feel uneasy

I’m not cold to their plight I throw change in their cup

But they’ve got shelters, they’ve got food stamps 

Isn’t that enough?

I’m working hard so I can get all the stuff that’s due me

If they won’t work they shouldn’t eat—it says that all too plainly

The way they look when I go by, like I’m to blame for their pain

If they would work as hard as me… I’d celebrate their gain

The economy is weak this year so I had to draw from my equity

Even so I do a little something for those less fortunate than me

At Christmas I send a frozen turkey to the food co-op pantry

I guess it’s my little way of saying “Thanks for all You’ve given me.”

My world’s not all it could be tho I admit we’ve got plenty

Still every now and then I get a surprise handed to me.

Like today when I was finishing Matthew 25

And Jesus whispered He didn’t know me

Life is just a bowl of cherry tomatoes...or beets!

Leigh Anne and I put up 25 quarts of spaghetti sauce this week.   Last Saturday we "sold" nearly 100 tomatoes at the local food pantry.  And there are plenty more where they came from.  Six months ago those thriving plants were tiny seeds sitting on top of tiny seed blocks inside a tiny greenhouse.  God is good to us!

CHILDREN'S GARDEN

The Tilapia are growing...a lot

Great things are happening on the Farm! New shed, new beds, rows and rows of collard greens, the craziest beans you've ever seen and tomatoes and potatoes to boot! We are so blessed.

Summer Jam comes to the Farm

High School and College kids from Scott's Hill Baptist Church in North Carolina volunteered at QCF this week. They pulled weeds, fell trees, cleared trash, chipped branches and brought a great attitude of service to the east side of Buffalo. Thanks to Pastor Brek, Patrick and Matt for the introduction to these fine young people.