Featured stories
Notes from the field — neighbors, gardens, and the quiet work of growing food together.
Thank you, Hardin County
September 6, 2026
The Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance came out to the sanctuary for their Proudly Hardin series. Thank you for making the trip and telling our story.
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Keeping the sanctuary quiet
July 20, 2026
How we protected an old chapel's sanctuary and Sunday-school library as quiet places for music and contemplation — a closed partition turned double-sided screen, living quarters repurposed with care, and uplifting music kept playing day and night.
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Beehive Cosmology: A Cosmic Farmer's Almanac for the Soul
July 20, 2026
Beehive Cosmology teaches us to read the seasons and signs overhead the way a farmer reads an almanac — not to tell the future, but to walk in harmony with a loving Creator's orderly design. A season for every purpose under heaven.
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Why Our Garden Looks a Little Wild
July 12, 2026
Our garden looks a little wild, and there's a reason. We're practicing permaculture and hugelkultur — building soil that lasts, one messy bed at a time.
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Rain, Roots, and What's Still Growing
July 5, 2026
Heavy rain and flooding this week, but the garden keeps going. Sunflowers, amaranth, squash, celosia, and hollyhocks are thriving in the wet.
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The Recording Studio: Sky, Clouds, and a Room to Make Music In
June 1, 2026
BJ cut acoustic tiles into a sky of clouds, hung a summery glass light, and filled the room with acoustic and electronic instruments — a studio you can come learn about and schedule time to gently enjoy.
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The Kitchen: A Seed Catalog, a Hymnal, and the Holiest Room in Any Church
May 1, 2026
BJ cut every single picture out of the Baker Creek seed catalog, sorted them by color across the chapel floor, and turned the kitchen cabinets into a continuous mural — roots below the river, bloom above. The countertops are set in resin over pages from hymnals left behind in the pews.
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While Val Was in Greece, BJ Built a Bathroom
April 1, 2026
In March, Val flew to Greece to study with her mom at learnlight.org. BJ stayed behind and finally gave the sanctuary a real bathroom — ceiling, floor, plumbing, chandelier, and all.
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Every month
- Open evenings with the organ and tea.
- Sing-ins and music shares.
Through the year
- Harvest Sing-In in the fall.
- Christmas Sing-In in December.
- News from the land, and word from the team when they travel.
