Latest News from Little Portion Farm

Great things are happening at Little Portion Farm - harvesting tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers - new crops of watermelon, cantaloupe, celery, and bush beans are doing very well. The Franciscan Center…

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EarthBeat Highlights Little Portion Farm

Sustainable farms show how Catholics can apply Laudato Sí to their daily lives National Catholic Reporter featured Little Portion Farm in their June 25 report on sustainable farms. Matt Jones,…

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Friar Field Journal No. 1

One of the wonderful aspects of the city of Oxford, England, is the existence of green spots, both cultivated and uncultivated, where nature really comes into her own. The wildlife…

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Wildflower Blessings

June 5, 2021, is World Environment Day. The theme this year is "Ecosystem Restoration." This restoration can take many forms: growing trees, greening cities, rewilding gardens, cleaning up rivers and…

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Blessed Giles of Assisi

Little Portion Farm, located on the property of the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City, Maryland, is a ministry dedicated to providing fresh food to those in need while…

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Winter’s Last Gasp

Franciscan Creation Spirituality Poetry A Snowy Morning Observed from a Compar Chapel The Gothic windows frame a sightOf ever-wheeling flakes of whiteLike flocks of downy geese come forth To fresh earth…

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