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Sisters invite public to Earth Day Festival
...nature shows, earth-related craft activities for children, spinning, weaving and felting demonstrations and, of course, visits from the alpacas. Enjoy Moonglade Animal Adventures as well as Mark Booth’s program “Take Flight: Wildllife Education” and more. A DJ will be on hand as well as planned hayrides, nature trail hikes and alpaca yoga. Many exhibits, tours of the organic gardens and a face painting station will also be offered. Plan to stop by the White Violet Center Farm Store, where you can...
Sisters to participate in panel discussion of documentary
...how the sisters would host families of the prisoners when they would come for visits. “Providence put all of this into action,” Amy said. As Providence would have it, Amy ran into Tamara at the annual Perkins’ family hayride and the two discussed the possibility of a screening of the documentary locally. From there, Amy sprung to action and secured the screening at the Indiana Theatre, which is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m., on Sunday, April 9. The...
Newsnotes
...To see the complete calendar of events or find out how you can get a program book mailed to you, go to Events.SistersofProvidence.org Fall Farm Day at the Woods Celebrate the autumn season with the Sisters of Providence on Sept. 30 from 1-4 p.m. Visit our alpaca herd, learn about the history of the farm and find ways you can help protect the environment. There will be hayrides; short presentations; fall snack favorites such as popcorn and apple cider provided...
Newsnotes: winter 2019 updates from the Sisters of Providence
...classes for two weeks, which helped her understand the language even more. The scholarship awarded to Sister Joni — totaling $5,000 — also offered her an opportunity to learn more about her heritage. “Having the ability to read and write Spanish helps me to reach out to those in the Hispanic community,” Sister Joni said. Fall Farm Day Lots of friends, both old and new, enjoyed sunny hayrides, arts and crafts, visits with the alpacas and more during our first-ever...
Newsnotes from winter 2023 HOPE magazine
...reunions for their classes to let her know at 812-535-2807 or cpritchett@spsmw.org Fun community events return At Christmas Fun at the Woods, a little girl sits with Santa at the Lodge in front of a cozy fire and shares her Christmas wish list. After a long hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, the end of 2022 saw a return to in-person community events at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods! Fall Farm Day on Oct. 2 was a success. We shared alpacas, hayrides and activities...
Being ‘Stickered’
...have a special message on the back of a label; my label last Saturday was the word ‘GORGEOUS,’ so I looked out at the autumn colored trees and whispered: ‘You are gorgeous; thank you for being you.’” On the opposite end of the question is Sister Janice Smith, “NO! I don’t look forward to being stickered. I am always so afraid that I will forget to go get them that it generally is another stressor to me. But it does help...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...
Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change
...Industry Consider buying second hand clothing, repairing and repurposing clothing, participating in a clothing swap, etc. Some stores that sell Fair Trade clothing include Athleta, Linden Leaf Gifts, Mata Traders, and MarketPlace: Handwork of India, Patagonia. Some brands such as Patagonia have a second-hand label – theirs is Worn Well. Check other stores and buy second hand through them. For tips on being fashionable inexpensively, click here. Read The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation, to all...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...told by some of her friends – stories known only to a few. Margaret talked Sister Barbara Bluntzer into getting her ears pierced. Sister Jean Fuqua felt honored that Margaret let her use the best sewing machine in the sewing room. Sisters Margaret Norris and Joseph Fillenwarth still can’t believe Margaret used the sewing machine to sew name labels on her clothes. As the youngest sister in a local community, band member Sister Joyce Brophy was given a pocket watch...
WVC adds ‘Real Organic Project’ certification
...protect the integrity of the organic label. Organic farming has always been based on “feed the soil, not the plant.” Young plants inside the greenhouse. Real organic farming relies on the microbial activity of the soil to slowly release nutrients to the plant. In recent years, many organic farmers have grown distraught over USDA decisions that have negated this fundamental truth, even though growing in soil is original to the USDA Organic standards. Further, rules have been overlooked regarding the...