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Today on Thursdays at 2: The Edible Churchyard

March 9, 2017
Office of Public Affairs

On Thursday, March 9, Thursdays at 2 is explores an Edible Churchyard in the middle of New York City.  Urban Farm Coordinator Claire West talks about transforming the St. Mary’s churchyard in Manhattanville, NY (Diocese of New York) into a bountiful edible garden.

The video is available here.   

Thursdays at 2 is a weekly preview of Episcopal Church innovative ministries. Every Thursday at 2 pm Eastern, a new video illustrating the work of congregations and individuals will be posted on the Episcopal Church’s Facebook page here and YouTube Channel here

Produced by the Episcopal Church Office of Communications, previously posted videos featured on Thursdays at 2 include:

  • Ashes To Go
  • Transforming Churches – Trinity Church, Clanton, AL
  • Episcopal Moments: Erin Deason
  • Episcopal Revival
  • St. Gabriel’s, Leesburg VA
  • Episcopal Moment – Lindsey Ardrey
  • Ecclesia Ministries Common Cathedral
  • Christ Church in Philadelphia, PA
  • YASCer in Tanzania
  • Two Tables
  • The Food Pantry at St. Gregory Nyssa in San Francisco, CA
  • @OurTable
  • Young Adult Service Corps
  • The Crossing
  • United Thank Offering at St. Paul’s Senior Center
  • Amazing Grace
  • St. Thomas Choir School
  • Bridal designer Anne Barge
  • Ferguson Pilgrimage
  • Jericho Road
  • Bluestone Farms and the Community of the Holy Spirit
  • The Abundant Table
  • Church on the Square in Baltimore
  • Mobile Loaves and Fishes

 

For more information contact Mike Collins, Episcopal Church Manager of Multimedia.

 

 

St. Mary's Urban Farm - Claire West, the edible churchyard