Bread & Roses

Bread & Roses is a diverse ministry, embracing creation care, sustainable agriculture and culinary innovation.
It is Trinity’s homegrown outreach to the Charlottesville community.

Our Bread & Roses volunteers focus on three initiatives at once:

  • Maintaining a native landscape to support the birds, bees and other inhabitants of our local ecosystem.
  • Growing healthy produce in our garden beds to share with neighbors facing food insecurity.
  • Operating a licensed commercial kitchen where more than 20 local entrepreneurs have gotten their start.

Seed by seed, and bite by bite, we seek to model creation care and promote economic opportunity.

Bread & Roses is not Trinity's ministry alone. It thrives on the partnerships we have nurtured with other faith communities, nonprofit and service organizations, and individual volunteers. Our partners share our commitment to the environment, to entrepreneurship and to sharing the fruits of God's creation.

We invite you to be part of this innovative ministry. Stop by for a visit. Sign up for a workshop. Help us out in the gardens.

Come get your hands dirty.

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Native Landscape

We cultivate native plants on our grounds to help protect the natural habitat of central Virginia.
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Deep Roots
Garden Ministry

We raise organic produce that we
share with families and food banks.
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Community Kitchen

Here, local entrepreneurs are cooking up new livelihoods for themselves and their families.
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Why I Garden

I came to Trinity about 30 years ago. As I settled into a new life in Charlottesville, it became important to me to meet others who were exploring their spirituality and doing good work in the community. Trinity is a place where I feel connected, challenged and loved.

Bread & Roses is a science- and faith-based initiative that focuses on ecosystems and human justice through the lens of food equity and sustainable land management. The gardens give me a daily dose of happiness and peace. A chance to be still. A place where wonder and fellowship walk hand in hand.

In the gardens I am reminded daily of the interconnected world we live in. Joy is ever-present as we welcome and care for God’s creation and all the inhabitants of “this fragile earth, our island home.”

Ann Majewski