I just wanted to post a short blog about the end of Church Farm.

Also, I wanted to post some of my favorite photos of the past two years

The reason Church Farm is closing its efforts is mostly because of the constant and relentless complaining to us as well as to  the city from the surrounding neighborhood. The residents along Prescott Heights street as well as Flora street for some reason do not wish for church farm to be near them.I think we had a good run but the opposition was too great and too constant.

Thank you for all your interest and contribution over the past 2 years.The goats have anew home and now we will begin the long process of retuning the church farmed land into a lawn again.

I would like to personally thank Tomas Arnold for his leadership and commitment to food and feeding people.Also, I would like to thank all the people who contributed to the farm here at the church.What a great experiment and great opportunity to work together as a community.

Thank you
Pastor Steve Lummer

This Thursday and Saturday was the first days of giving the harvest away through Church Farm and the many other gardens in the city of Prescott.

This initial give away was small but many stopped by to see the event anf receive food for their table.

Thomas Arnold has worked very hard with his team of farmers to get this going.

I cannot wait to see what happens when the fall harvest is in.

There is something really rewarding about seeing food giving away that you watched grow.

Great job guys.

This past week I came to the church campus to find two groups of students from Northpoint School learning some hands on education at the church farm.

After they had gone back to class I walked around to see all the work they had accomplished.  Great job guys and thank you.

I also learned that Prescott is one of only twelve communities in the United States to receive a major grant from Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound (with funds provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) to create a new, small, rigorous high school based on the highly acclaimed Expeditionary Learning model.

Here are a few photos of the students with Thomas the teacher.

Twila the goat will be having her kid in August. Really looking forward to all the excitment.

To have a church part of a school’s field trip is a real delight. I wish we had more things to offer the community. Perhaps in the future we could offer other real life opportunities for people to come and participate and learn.

In Genesis 26, there is a story about the Philistines filling the wells Abraham had dug with dirt and debris. Isaac reopens the wells by removing the debris.

It is amazing how stuff that used to work stops working.  Things are in a constant state of repair all around us.

This past week we repaired the well at the church and for the first time in almost 15 years water began to flow from the well to water the gardens at Church Farm.

I just wanted to post a big thank you the the following people to make this possible through their donations.

Rick Turner and sons from Turner pump and windmill company, Steve and Cindy Alward from High Gear Bikes, Nate Wood, Kate Pressman, Harold Potts, Michael Taylor, Virginia Jenkins, Pam Crawford, Paul and Jo Lummer, Gary Lummer, Natascha Lummer, Ester Summers Jeff and Tracie Scheffert,  Anden Scheffert, Michael Russel, Treba Pickering, Melvin and Linda Odell, Adam Arnold, Ray Wehrs, Norman Williams, Francis Clark, Jean Bloecher, Jason and Amber Dykstra, Nancy Edwards, Scott and Kim Floyd, Diane Gurle, Bob Blount, Rich at Coffee Roasters and Thomas Arnold.

These people helped us unstop a well that will water the church farm that will feed people – AWESOME AND GOOD ON THEM!

Here are just a few pictures of the well being unstopped.

The old pump comes out and the new one goes in.

The Potatoes and the Hopi Blue corn on the rise.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. Genesis 26:18 (niv)