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

Here are some Spring updates for Urban Community Life's (UCLife), 2016 summer camp. We have an incredible amount of strawberries on the farm right now, and it's the easiest way to support the mission of Urban Community Life! Come pick through the rows for juicy red gems and try the Strawberry Shortcake recipe I posted … Continue reading Strawberry Fields

Anna Shutley said she saw sheep. Kudzu eating sheep! I counted 20 and fell fast asleep. She's a 16 year old student with her priorities straight. She spent spring break weeding out beds with me and creeping Jenny in the educational garden as part of her "CAS" project (Creativity-Action-Service) where she attends Riverwood High School, … Continue reading Shutley Saw Sheep

Peter and Sheila Roesler came out for a walking tour through UCLife's Farm on March 19, 2016. Sheila liked the plethora of perennial herbs that live in the raised beds for educational purposes. I pinched at their fragrant leaves and chewed as I passed through, and so I decided to drill her. Not just her, … Continue reading Exaggerated Associations

We're only farmers. You know what I mean. There are no offices, positions, degrees, titles, promotions. No popularity, authority, or dignity. But for me, it's an extremely high position to find the glories of farming. There is a tremendous amount about the bitter life. There's an awful lot that goes on out here, a real … Continue reading Chive Blossoms