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As the Farm Director, Steven is excited to be overseeing the care and growth of the Farm. As a site for restorative Edenic homemaking, the Farm can become a laboratory for radical hospitality, where Redeemer members and community members alike can grow in deeper relationships with God, with one another, and with the stranger in our midst.
For a decade before coming to New Garden Farm, Steven worked as a farmer, pastor, and educator in Austin, Texas, living and working at a tiny-house community for the homeless. Ordained as a deacon the week before COVID shut down the world, Steven has a passion to bring the Church and the poor into deeper relationships with one another.
Steven Hebbard, Farm Director
For several years Steven had found a long distance mentor in Bishop Alan Hawkins (founding pastor of our Farm’s parish, Church of the Redeemer, and New Garden Park), and in 2021 this friendship led to an invitation for Steven to bring his ministry to us in Greensboro!
When Steven is not casting giant visions, he is fiddling around in his organic garden and playing with mud and straw as a natural builder. Steven is joined by his wife and fellow maker, Dr. Bethany Bear Hebbard, daughter Pearl, and son Caedmon.
Email Steven about farm events and activities, donating to our farm, or partnering with our ministry.
We’re also so grateful for each intern and volunteer who joins to spend time working on the farm with us! We couldn’t do it without you!
