Rachel's GardenAfter the Parish Hall was rebuilt, a pile of rubble was left in the triangular space surrounded by the sanctuary, hallway, and Parish Hall. Many parishioners over the years worked to clear the space and establish plantings from their own gardens. Today, it is a lovely meditation garden.In 2008, the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, Grace dedicated this churchyard garden to her memory, calling it Rachel's Garden. The author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was a modern-day prophet, credited with founding the Environmental Movement. An oceanographer and naturalist, she worked for many years in Massachusetts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, in Falmouth, on Cape Cod. God's Little Acre/Ti jaden Bondye aIn 2010, the first organic garden in Everett (in modern times, at least) was planted in a sunny area of the churchyard. Several varieties of peppers and tomatoes were produced in abundance. In the spring of 2011, the garden was doubled in size, and it will be doubled again in the spring of 2012, as the members of the English Conversation and Gardening Club get their hands dirty. Grace Church belongs to a local health-access and food-security effort called "Everybody Eats Healthy in Everett."
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Grace Episcopal Church
