Connecting Creation Care with Community
"Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently, nourish the life
of the world in our care."
- Shirley Murray
About Us and our community garden plots
We are a Community
The Old Sauk Community Gardens is located on land owned by the Madison Christian Community (MCC), a partnership between Advent Lutheran Church and Hope United Church of Christ. The MCC acquired seven acres of land
from retiring farmers in the late 1960’s. Almost immediately some of it became community gardens for people in the neighborhood and church members (Lower Garden Plots). More recently, the community garden expanded up the hill to the area next to the church driveway (Upper Garden Plots). In addition to the church building, MCC has added three prairies, a labyrinth, the Cremains Memorial Garden and manages the “Spirit Woods” on the east side of the Lower Garden Plots. These are all part of MCC’s desire to be good stewards of the land.
Community Gardens
Gardeners should maintain individual plots in a manner that promotes the beauty, health and sustainability of the Old Sauk Community Garden, the common grounds, surrounding neighborhood, prairies,
and “Spirit Woods.”
Land Acknowledgement
The land where we gather today, Teejop, is part of the homeland of the Ho-Chunk people.
The Christian Church was complicit in the forcible removal of Indigenous people through the Doctrine of Discovery from 1452, further adopted by the US Supreme Court in 1823 (Johnson v. M'Intosh). We renounce this history, humbly lament all harm done, and honor the presence and persistence of the Ho-Chunk. We commit to reparative actions, including caring for the prairies, gardens,
woods, and waters of this land.
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