Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration

The Garth an interfaith garden.

What is a garth? Old Norse garlor: farmyard, farm, courtyard Middle Eng garth: yard, garden Church garth or cloister: an open courtyard enclosed by a cloister, or, in a monestary, a sunny south facing garden. The visionaries, who worked fron concept design to planting, nurturing and caring for the Garth: Holly Jobe and Michael Foy.	A weed-grown cloister in bloom, a steep gully transformed, no longer a barren, eroding flood danger, but a place of natural beauty and spiritual peace.
How a shared vision turned a long-neglected space into an interfaith meditation garden.	"When I see heaven and earth as my own garden, I live that moment outside the Universe" a Zen Harvest: Japanese Folk Zen Sayings, p. 53, compiled and translated by Soiku Shigematsu