What is the Well-Watered Garden Project?
The Well-Watered Garden Project seeks to equip and multiply Christians to be Champions for Jesus through planting simple gardens and training others. A Well-Watered Garden (WWG) is a simple, productive garden that enables anyone to grow their own food while glorifying God and sharing the hope of Jesus. The foundation of the WWG Project is Jesus’ heart for the poor and a desire to see the hungry fed and the hurting given hope. The term, ‘Well-Watered Garden’, refers to Isaiah 58:11 which talks about how those who spend themselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed will be like a ‘well-watered garden’.
What Does the WWG Project Look Like in a Community?
One example of the Well-Watered Garden Project being used to impact a community is shown in the video below, where a church in Naples, Florida has seen tremendous results. The pastor sent a couple from the church to attend a 5-day WWG training. After going back and working with their church they trained over 200 people in their community in the first 18 months, with many of them making professions of faith in Jesus.
Why Should I Plant a Well-Watered Garden?
Whether you are a first-time gardener or a veteran grower, we expect that you will benefit from the simple, low-cost, Christ-centered approach of the WWG. Through planting a WWG you will have the opportunity to practice applying and displaying the heart of Christ in the way you steward the land. You will have delicious, healthy food to feed you and your family and friends, and you will be able to teach others to grow their own WWG’s. In this way your community can experience greater health, increase their food security, and ignite hope through a visible expression of the heart of Jesus in gardening.
Can Such a Small Garden Have any Major Impact on the Food System?
Every person who plants a WWG is expected to use their garden to teach others about land stewardship and to help them plant their own WWG. Our vision is to see 1,000,000 WWG’s around the world in 10 years. It would only take each WWG Champion training and helping two other new Champions plant their own gardens each year for this to be possible. This could have a major impact on not only food security but the spiritual health of our communities and nations.
WWG Gallery
Download the latest WWG Veggie Handbook for FREE!
Use the form below to request your PDF copy.
We want to see as many people as possible equipped to grow their own food and share hope with others by planting a Well-Watered Garden. So we are giving away digital copies of the Well-Watered Garden Handbook for FREE! In this short guide you will be equipped with the information you need to plan, install, plant, care for, and train others with a small Well-Watered Vegetable Garden.
How to get involved:
- Pray and ask God if he is calling your to be a Well-Watered Garden Champion
- Download and read the latest WWG Handbook above.
- Join the Redeeming the Dirt Academy Community and ask for prayer for your WWG (or use the comment section at the bottom of this page).
- Use the info in your WWG Veggie Handbook to plan and install your first garden. Gather a team of people to be apart of your project. Share pictures on the Academy or comment section below!
- Schedule a day to host a free gardening class at your WWG.
- Pray for God to raise up 2 more Champions in your area that you can assist to plant their own WWGs! Share this page with interested friends and family using the links below.
- Check out our upcoming In-Depth Trainers Trainings and pray about attending one of our 5-Day Courses at the Foundations for Farming USA Training Center in Alabama.
Upcoming Trainings
Online WWG Training January 12-13th
Not everyone can come to a hands-on training, so this event will provide some more in-depth information for training others using a Well-Watered Garden and the 12 lessons contained in the Well-Watered Garden Handbook. The sessions will be recorded for watching later if you can’t attend live. There is no cost to register for this training.
To contact us leave a comment in the section below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Support the Work of the Well-Watered Garden Project
If you would like to contribute toward the work of training, curriculum development, and expanding the reach of this project please click below to donate. You will be directed to a Christian payment processing company, Cornerstone Payments. The recipient will be Rora Valley Farms, the farm name of the project director, Noah Sanders, and will go to support him in his work on the project. Thank you so much!
The Well-Watered Garden Project is an initiative of Redeeming the Dirt and Foundations for Farming USA.
Please pray for our non-profit; Southside community garden INITIATIVE. We are located 20 miles south of Indianapolis. I received your well watered garden PDF from Curtis Sergeant. The WWG is an option we are praying about. I love the disciple making aspect. But we are also considering the “Victory Gardens” that were implemented during WW1 and WW2. Love their name … but love WWG’s purpose. – TY!
So glad to hear your vision and heart! May God direct you as you follow him in faithfulness with the land.
Am Willy from kyamaganda community development organization in southern Uganda and we work with rural farmers groups. Am interested to lean more about the well watered project and be part of the training to come.
Great to hear from you! I have reached out via email to connect you with my partners doing training in Africa. God Bless!
We need to be discipled on how to do this in Traverse City, MI
Nick,
We would love to help you with this. I will reach out to you via email.
Noah
If this can be taught to my community in Uganda hunger and food shortage would be history
We are starting a community garden this spring and fixing up an amandond farm at a Christian retreat center in NJ. As missionaries our heart is to reach the community for the Lord through our garden! My heart and vision is almost identical to this ministry! I am so excited to have come across your site! I would love more information!! Thank you!
An answer to prayer. In the past I have been involved in secular gardening groups and recently gave up my certification in Master Gardeners because frankly Jesus is not allowed. This is an opportunity to show Gods love through action.
Amen!
Every household needs the support of food in any case but gardeners were few maybe after training and getting seeds ,we shall have enough food and the gospel will be easily preached.
So wonderful and this is an answer to prayer for me in Ireland as this has never been heard of here. Fairy gardens, Celtic gardens, every kind but never Godly
Kindly send me the PDF copy of WWG Veggie Handbook
Hey! I didn’t realize that the download link was broken for a few days but you should be able to find it on the page above now. Let me know if you have any problems!
Noah
This is exactly what we want to do in West Africa. In fact, Is 58:11 has been our verse since we were married 14 years ago. How can we get the WWG Veggie Handbook?
Will
Awesome! That is amazing! The download request form should be fixed now and you can download the pdf. You can find it on this page. Let me know if you have any other problems. Keep us updated!
Noah
Hi Noah,
I’ve been trying to get the WWG handbook, but it’s not appeared in my inbox, although on the website it said the application was successful. Can you tell me what I might need to do to receive the copy?
Thanks – Fiona
I apologize about that. I will email it to you directly. Typically you will receive a confirmation email that you will have to click. Then you will be directed to the download. Thanks for reaching out and letting me know!
In Christ,
Noah
Hi Noah
This is the sort of thing I have been wanting to do with our 1.5 acre suburban block in regional Australia. I had been thinking of calling my garden “Grace Garden, sharing God’s abundance”, but wonder whether it might be good to join what you have already started instead of re-inventing it. Going to read pdf you are so generously sharing and see.
This is SO timely. I am very thankful that I saw your video and found this website. I feel that it is needed right now more than ever – both to fill our bellies AND our souls, and to show how Jesus IS the only Way. We can work the soil and plant the seed, but only He can make that seed grow. And, in telling us that by the sweat of our brow so shall we eat, He calls us to do the work. What a wonderful thing you have started.
We want to practically do the same but we need to be taught how it works
How can I download the WWG handbook?
You can download it for free using the form on this page. Let me know if you have any problems!
So glad to hear about this please let me know where in Alabama you are located So I can attend your training class .
We are located in Goodwater, Alabama. Our next events are coming up in March and can be found at the following links:
https://redeemingthedirt.com/redeeming-the-dirt-faith-and-farming-conference/
https://redeemingthedirt.com/5-day-foundations-for-farming-training-for-trainers/
I’m very very interested in medicinal plants and eating healthy. I’m hoping to learn how to advise people on ways to feel better and solve health issues by eating and growing food the way God wants us to. Can you advise me?
Cathy,
I would recommend downloading the WWG guide and also consider joining our online community for free at http://www.redeemingthedirtacademy.com.
Noah
Was wondering, as far as farming technique goes, how does it differ from Paul Gautschi’s style of biblical gardening in The Back to Eden Film?thank you
We use the same principles of minimal soil disturbance, maximum soil coverage, and imitating God’s design in nature. The main difference is that we teach a more systematic approach the is easily duplicated and teaches using natural mulches like leaves and grasses instead of just woodchips.
There is a 11 acre wooden area close to where my garden is at. I have had problems with groundhogs and deer eating the veggies.
That is challenging. I have the same problem, except we are surrounded by hundred of acres of wooded area! I recommend putting a fence around your garden. A Well-Watered Garden in normally only 20’x20′ so it is very affordable to fence.
I don’t see any upcoming trainings on the calendar. Could you send me a link?
Thanks for asking! You can check out our training page to see upcoming events. https://redeemingthedirt.com/training/
Thanks!
Noah
Hi Noah,
Curious about upcoming trainings for summer of 2023? I don’t see any on the calendar on the website. Would love to know If you have one the week of 6/19 or 7/17? Thank you sir.
Thanks for asking! You can check out our training page to see upcoming events. https://redeemingthedirt.com/training/
Thanks!
Noah
When is your next training to be a trainer for the Well Watered Garden. Am in Georgia.
Thanks for asking! You can check out our training page to see upcoming events. https://redeemingthedirt.com/training/
Thanks!
Noah
Hello: I would like to say that this website was sent to me by God! I have been asked on several occasions to teach my practice in preserving food. But I knew there was always something missing! And this is what was missing. The beginning of the preservation. The teachings of God! Our church has gone through so many obstacles through the past 10 years. I did not attend through some of them as I am redeeming my life to Christ again from a long bout without him. Please pray in my guidance to find the very tool to help serve the Lord and to teach on what I am passionate about.