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Join Faith Communities Good Green on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm ET

Discussion facilitated by Mimi Rook

Book: Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

by  Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates

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When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.

In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

NAIN Virtual Connect will be on Sep 24-25, 2025. During the Connect, there will be a NAIN Marketplace for NAIN member organizations to showcase and share the work that they do.
This is a great opportunity for interfaith organizations to meet other interfaith leaders and friends to share your work and ministries, good news stories, and experiences which could lead to fruitful collaborations.
Your organization will have a zoom room during this NAIN Marketplace, so NAIN members and friends can go into the room of organization(s) that interest(s) them.
This Marketplace will be on September 24, 2025 for 1 hour (approximately 11:50 am EST to 12:50 pm EST).

Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.

Saturday, September 6 @ 9 – 11:30 at the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Motherhouse – Sister Dorothy Stang was killed in the Amazon on February 12, 2005 protecting vulnerable communities and their lands from rich ranchers. Participants will be journeying through photos and stories that highlight eight different sites in Dayton and Ohio where Sr. Dorothy Stang is remembered and has roots, the event will take place at the:

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Mount Notre Dame Convent
699 E. Columbia Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45215

If you have any questions please contact Teresa Phillips, Director of the Office of Peace, Justice and Care of Creation,  phillips@sndden.org or (513) 679-8189.

Mark your calendar for the 4th Annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths August 22-29, 2021 (virtually presented)

This year’s theme: “Compassion through Action: We are in it Together”
Cultural, spiritual, and fun activities for all ages.

Please join EquaSion at this year’s Festival of Faiths, presented virtually from August 22-29.

This year’s activities will include representation by several of Cincinnati’s diverse faith groups and their leaders.

Presently, more than 50 civic leaders and representatives of our region’s diverse faith traditions are again collaborating as planners of this year’s 4th Annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths.

The Festival is our community’s most inclusive gathering of area religious groups, involving more than 30 distinct faith traditions representing 14 world religions.

The Festival’s purposes are to showcase our community’s rich religious diversity, remind us of religion’s contributions to our community’s quality of life, and to demonstrate the unity of our interfaith community.

More details to follow. For the latest updates and information, please follow EquaSion on Facebook and/or Twitter.

Mark your calendar for the 4th Annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths August 22-29, 2021 (virtually presented)

This year’s theme: “Compassion through Action: We are in it Together”
Cultural, spiritual, and fun activities for all ages.

Please join EquaSion at this year’s Festival of Faiths, presented virtually from August 22-29.

This year’s activities will include representation by several of Cincinnati’s diverse faith groups and their leaders.

Presently, more than 50 civic leaders and representatives of our region’s diverse faith traditions are again collaborating as planners of this year’s 4th Annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths.

The Festival is our community’s most inclusive gathering of area religious groups, involving more than 30 distinct faith traditions representing 14 world religions.

The Festival’s purposes are to showcase our community’s rich religious diversity, remind us of religion’s contributions to our community’s quality of life, and to demonstrate the unity of our interfaith community.

More details to follow. For the latest updates and information, please follow EquaSion on Facebook and/or Twitter.