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GROW TOGETHER MICROFEST: From Garden Beds to Places of Belonging

  • St Francis College 233 Milton Road 4064 Australia (map)

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Join us for an inspiring afternoon with international author and Farminarian Jeff Chu at Baroona Farm, St Francis College. The program includes short interactive workshops, a shared potluck meal, and the official launch of the Baroona Farm Network. Jeff—writer, minister, and co-author of Wholehearted Faith—will deliver a keynote address exploring how story, identity, soil, and community interweave to cultivate spaces of nourishment and belonging. Workshop options range from sustainability and composting to justice, healing, and waterwise gardening. The day concludes with music, community conversation, and the vision for growing together.

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Biography

Jeff Chu is a writer, reporter, gardener, minister and author of ‘Good Soil’, ‘Does Jesus Really Love Me?’ as well as the co-author—with the late Rachel Held Evans—of the bestseller ‘Wholehearted Faith’. A former farmhand at Princeton Seminary’s Farminary, Jeff’s life and work are shaped by the holy rhythms of soil, story, loss, and new life. His recent memoir, Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand, explores how the land transformed his understanding of God, vocation, and community. We are delighted to welcome Jeff as our keynote speaker and preacher for this special weekend

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