Refreshing Religions with Edible Ethics
Local Agriculture and Sustainable Food in Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist Projects in the U.S.
A montage based on interviews and further dissertation research under the same title, by Sarah E. Robinson-Bertoni, Ph.D. Religion
Agriculture: Human Institutions Meet the Wild
Sustainable Agriculture as Earth Literacy:
Integrating How Earth Works
Interdependence in Farming and Buddhism
I feel like both farming and Buddhism recognize that interdependence is the way things
are… Recognizing that interdependence is helpful… Interdependence for me means that
everything in this world only exists in relation to everything else in this world, that
Religion as Ethical Connection
With Earth, Each Other, and the Future
there is no being or plant or animal that
can exist on its own
and that we are all part of that really complex chain of causation.
Lauren Bouyea, Green Gulch Farm
Tulip interior, Oakland, California
Fields, orchards, and trees at Genesis Farm, Blairstown, New Jersey
Unripe spring plums, Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach, California
Plum blossoms against the spring sky, Walnut Creek, California
Theological-Agricultural Ethics
Rooting, Dividing, Flourishing
Religion as Honoring
Taqwa Eco-food Cooperative serves four
communities: consumers, food production
workers, animals, and Mother Earth. The
cooperative aims to restore Islamic ethics
in the raising of livestock and poultry. It
does so by replacing inhumane farming
practices with healthy and ecologically
respectful techniques, thereby improving
standards of food production.
Ripe peppers
Genesis Farm
Blairstown, New Jersey
In the young, New World Zen
meditation halls rooting and
dividing and flourishing across the
continent,
Wild turkeys, Albany, California
Calligraphy:
“Praise be to Allah the Cherisher and
Sustainer of the Worlds”
Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang
Circa 2011, China ink & brush on rise paper & silk fabric, 25.5 x
64.5 cm (10 x 25.4”)
Displayed at the Graduate Theological Union Library
Berkeley, California
we still follow the same
guidelines for meditation
set up in Dogen’s
[13th century] time
in his monastery on the rugged
coast of northern Japan.
And in the garden, the
bloodline of tradition and
obedience to the plants
pumps in the arteries of
every gardener.
Wendy Johnson, Green Gulch
Statue in Green Gulch Garden, Muir Beach, California
Fall Harvest at Genesis Farm Community Supported Garden, Blairstown, New Jersey
Learning to Reverently Read the Book of Nature
A Path at Genesis Farm, Blairstown, New Jersey
Sarah E. Robinson-Bertoni,
[email protected]
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Daily Devotion to God and the Earth
Sustainable Agriculture in Religious Contexts:
Listening, Learning, and Participating in Nature
Apple orchard floor, Pennsylvania
Greens growing at Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach, California
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