Rock Rose Food Justice Project

02/26/2026

Applications are now open for the Maryland Master Naturalists training at Stillmeadow! This is a great opportunity to learn about urban ecology and environmental justice (in addtion to all the other great stuff in the Master Naturalist certification program.

01/19/2026

A terrific piece by Shen at the Brew about the deeply regrettable decision to shut down the amazing food justice project Soul Kitchen, run by the fabulous Carolyn Anewich. Soul Kitchen has been the primary recipient of the produce we grow at our Rock Rose Food Justice Project.

Govans Presbyterian leaders say a refrigerator accessible 24/7 is a good way to feed the food insecure. But Soul Kitchen’s legions of fans ask: Why end a 15-year-old tradition of serving hot and healthy meals face-to-face?

11/23/2025

This is what our produce looks like after Govans Soul Kitchen and its genius leader Carolyn Anewich turn it into 150 Thanksgiving meals.

10/27/2025

Beautiful fall delivery to Govans Soul Kitchen

08/05/2025

Harlan Public Middle School garden build, Wilmington, DE

11/23/2024

Pre-Thanksgiving harvest for SoulKitchen.

10/03/2024

Very happy to announce that my new book, The Maryland Master Naturalists Handbook (Johns Hopkins University Press), a guide to the ecology, environmental history, and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay region, is now available for pre-order!

The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook

08/21/2024

This summer I raised funds to support six fantastic Environmental Justice interns from the University of Delaware. Among them: masters students in entomology and speech pathology; a pre-med undergrad; and three PhD students in Geography and English.

We spent 10 weeks in Baltimore building gardens with the Nepalese-American Cultural Center; planting trees and native plant meadows with Stillmeadow Community Fellowship; building chicken coops with Ulysses Archie Jr.and the Baltimore Gift Economy; and growing and delivering many hundreds of pounds of organic food from the Rock Rose Food Justice Project to Soul Kitchen, the The Agoge Project and Love & Cornbread.

Oh -- and we paddled the Susquehanna and the Potomac, just for fun.

06/27/2024

Harvest time

04/09/2024

Bamboozled! Setting up trellises for pole beans.

03/06/2024

Hi, all -- many of you have followed the urban reforestation work we have been doing at Baltimore's Stillmeadow Peace Park over the last four or five years. Baltimore Magazine, edited by my fabulous former student Lydia Woolever, has just published a terrific piece about it, Check it out:

Starting with an inspired vision from a parishioner and nurtured by an outpouring of collaboration, Southwest Baltimore’s Stillmeadow woods have been given a second chance.