Money really does grow on trees. Prosperity for everyone nourishes the whole system when part of the earnings are applied to the cause of God. Food forager, Adam, arrived at Urban Community Life on Monday to take the boys on a mushroom hunt, and within four hours, they packed away 19lbs of gold fungi in … Continue reading Golden Chanterelles

Health and Wellness Coordinator for Tanner Medical, Patricia Mitchell, planned 7 activity stations to get healthy and live well. Urban Community Life was invited to come along for a refreshing bike ride through the supplemented course, and to get our day off to a good start. Fruit smoothies were fender blended on a stationary bike … Continue reading Rock the Bike Activity Day

Carroll County Extension Agent and Master Gardener, Michelle Lewis, delivers nutritional news directly to God’s young farmers each week at God's Farm in Temple, GA. The Extension Office has three divisions that offer instruction and information to county citizens: Agriculture and Natural Resources (soil and water sampling; pesticides and hazardous waste handling/disposal; fruits, vegetables, home … Continue reading Extension Agent

Twenty sixteen has been a tremendous year of growth and development for Urban Community Life. With 16 participants this past summer, we jumped quickly from an inspiring concept into an organization that has tremendous capacity to impact the lives of urban youth. Each of God’s Farmers had immediate opportunity to teach life lessons found in … Continue reading Annual Fundraising Letter, 2017

What's a summer camp without an incredible medical missionary? An endless wave of heat exhaustion, an outbreak of ear infections, and a complex set of spider bites with an itch of poison ivy. Dr. David Kim, musician, photographer, and church planter, has supported Urban Community Life (UCLife) for a decade. From hosting weekly camp dinners … Continue reading Dr. David Kim

Organic Blackberries are in and they are delish! Also, we have different varieties of peppers and tomatoes coming into harvest. You can come pick through the trellis maze or we can pick for you. Bring your children and enjoy a day at the farm and support Urban Community Life and our young urban farmers at … Continue reading Blackberries

Sheep shearing, goat castrating, buzzing honey bee keeper, kid-friendly, tomato trellising, Young Farmers of America director at  Bowden High School, and a tenured ag teacher for Carroll County, Ryan Ayers (wife Andy) and his four children, whose oldest daughter is a camp counselor at God's Farm, came to deliver organic, odor-full, fertilizer for the educational … Continue reading Young Farmers of America

"Grow your own plump blackberries and save money; good gardens are cheaper than therapy. Start with three shoots this spring, then next spring you'll have 16, and the spring after that 100, and the spring after that you'll lose count and feed the birds." That was my sales pitch at the bargain hunters old-fashioned yard … Continue reading New Blackberry Shoots

Plein air oil painting @ God's Farm, Temple, GA, 4/24/16 by visiting artist, Jan Levin Artist Jan Levin and I have been friends for almost nine years, brought together through ministry with the Good News Atlanta team from 2007 - 2011.  I have saved a million, yellow buttercup lives from the mowers of men. Look … Continue reading Artist Jan Levin