Christian Gardening: Recent Episodes
Ken
A place for Christian gardeners to discuss everything under the sun ... and sometimes rain, snow and sleet with your host Ken Swarner. Ken is the principal designer at Room to Grow Designs (roomtogrowdesigns.com) in the Puget Sound area. He is also a Christian humor writer with a book due out in 2022 with David Cook Publishing. He can be found at kenswarner.com.
Garden Designer Ken Swarner shares his five tips for getting the most out of road trips to see gardens and pray in them.
Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com and Ken Swarner's Christian Family & Garden Show on YouTube) chats about the garden shows in the UK that taught him everything he knows about gardens and design.
Garden Designer & Christian Parenting Humorist Ken Swarner Offers Ten Reasons Every Christian Should Start and Maintain a Garden. See his new show, Christian Family & Gardens at YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTSajRrWKrMkbAtxyEyBKg
Garden Designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com) takes the Five Finger Prayer from the halls of Sunday School and suggests how to do the same in our garden spaces. Also see Ken's Christian work at kenswarner.com (sign up for his daily prayer for parents, too).
Ken Swarner with roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com chats with Shelley Cramm who writes a blog and devotional to bring the Bible into our gardens. She helps us connect to Scripture through plants in our yards by telling us their meaning and more.
Ken Swarner with roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com discusses his favorite Christian devotionals for gardeners, and HOW to get the most out of them. In the show, he discusses the following:
Devotions from the Garden: Finding Peace and Rest in Your Hurried Life
By: Miriam Drennan. 2015
Living Earth Devotional: 365 Green Practices for Sacred Connection
By Clea Danaan (Author)
God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
By Shelley S. Cramm
Lessons From The Garden Devotional: Conversations with God
By Dr. Katheryn Beavers Arterberry
I Come to the Garden Alone: A Devotional for Men and Women
By C. Hope Flinchbaugh
The One-Year Home & Garden Devotions
By: Sandra Byrd
Glory in the Garden: 31 Days of Devotionals: bringing us closer to the Father through the beauty of his creationBy Jill McSheehy
Life Lessons from My Garden
By Cathy Bryant
Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com) discusses all of the critical elements for creating prayer space in the garden - the 411 to bring you closer to God. ALSO see my Christian humor site kenswarner.com.
Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com) discusses his favorite reads for getting closer to God, becoming a better gardener, and just plain geeking-out ... here is the list of my favorites mentioned in this show:
Monty Don. Gardening at Longmeadow
The Biophilia Hypothesis
What Plant Where. Roy Lancaster
Healing Gardens. Romy Rawlings
Real Gardens. Adam Frost
Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. Wendy Johnson
Sacred Landscapes. Mann, Davis
Dear Friend & Gardener. Chatto, Lloyd.
Sissinghurst. Sackville-West, Raven
The Layered Garden, David Culp
Growing with My Garden. Rolland Hein
Heaven is a Garden. Jan Johnsen
We chat about the studies around Biophilia and their relationships to Christians, and then chat with North Texas gardener Sonja Bradshaw who beautifully ties together the aspects of Biophilia and God. Garden designer Ken Swarner can be seen at roomtogrowdesigns.com and at his Christian humor site kenswarner.com.