Trinity Episcopal Church’s outreach ministry, Bread & Roses, works in the Charlottesville community to support teaching the individual skills of cooking, gardening, and nutrition choices, while paying attention to the larger issues of shifting toward a more equitable and accessible food system.

Our vision statement, “to transform the ways we acquire, cook, and relate to the food we eat,” emphasizes our awareness that food insecurity includes many pieces, and so a larger transformation must be made by smaller shifts. We work to facilitate these shifts–seed by seed and bite by bite– by using our outdoor space for organic demonstration gardens and our commercial kitchen for classes and micro food businesses, and by collaborating to share our resources with other community organizations.