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Spend a morning outdoors with our Urban Farm Manager helping us bring in one of the season's biggest harvests--sweet potatoes!
Stage One: Volunteers will work together to clear approximately 500 square feet of sweet potato vines, dig up the potatoes, and prepare this section of our farm for its next season of growth.
Stage Two: After the potatoes have been gathered, the team will turn over the soil and prepare the field for planting fall greens.
THE DETAILS
Materials & Supplies: we will provide the tools and gloves, but if you have some that you like to use on your own garden, please feel free to bring and use those.
Parking: Volunteers may park in the paved lot at the end of our building or along the street.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT "THE BETH"
The Bethlehem Center's story began with two women who saw a need in South Chattanooga and decided to do something about it. In 1920, Miriam Brock started a children's Bible study in a church basement. The ministry grew into a daycare and kindergarten and moved into a building called Wesley House. About a decade later, Reverend Sallie Crenshaw, the first African American woman ordained in this region of the United Methodist Church, began leading Bible studies and caring for children whose parents were working. Her ministry became known as Good Shepherd Fold Daycare.
As the years passed, the two women saw both their ministries and their impact on the community grow. Over time, Mrs. Brock and Reverend Crenshaw merged their ministries, and in 1960, The Bethlehem Center opened its doors on West 38th Street. More than 100 years after Miriam Brock's first Bible study in a church basement, it continues to serve children...as well as families and individuals throughout Chattanooga.
To learn more about The Bethlehem Center's current programs and an overview of our community initieaves, check out this recent article in the Chattanooga Pulse.
