Fred Bahnson, Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute, is a writer and farmer living near Asheville, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and former director of Anathoth Community Garden, an experiment in church-supported agriculture in Cedar Grove, North Carolina. An organic garden, which fosters a sacramental life based on growing and sharing food together, Anathoth opened in 2005 and has since become a nationally-recognized model for how churches can serve their communities by increasing local food security.
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