Location:
Bethel Lutheran Church
"Building community is never easy. It takes commitment and work. Given our new habits or social networking, our practice of ‘cocooning’ (coming home from work and driving into the garage and not to be seen again until the garage door opens the next morning and we drive away), the distances that separate us, is it any wonder that fashioning a community is hard?
That is what we are trying to do at the Bethel Community—not just to grow vegetables, but to grow community. We come from a number of communities (Bethel, the Hispanic church across the road, the mobile home park, etc.) already. We, your mentors, come from north of Battle Ground, Venersborg, and Salmon Creek.
But our Bethel Community Garden is all about building relationships…and building community. In that—in many ways—that is counter-cultural. While societal drift is toward increasing isolation and generational separation, we are trying to reverse the trend by bringing people together around food and enhancement of the environment."
- Joe Aalbue
