We had Laura and her daughter out to help us harvest this week. And this is what she had to say about the space...
We don’t talk much about what goes “wrong” in the garden. Not because it doesn’t happen. Because it does.
Isn’t that the way life is, though? You keep reaching around and up and kind of get yourself all knotted up sometimes and turned around a bit, but the fact that you’re always aiming for the light? It means you grow up along that twisty journey, and nobody told this cucumber plant to do this…
Read More
I wish I could walk everyone through this garden and show you how well created it all is. Not what we’ve done, but the plants themselves. I’d run through like a child though, zig zagging from plant to plant in some sort of unorganized excitement, hardly finishing one sentence before dragging you by the hand to another plant and yelling, “BUT look at THIS!!”
Read More
When you harvest all the huge beautiful lettuce and re-compost and re-fertilize and give the bed a little time to rest? And then you plant this little thing. And you think? Wow. It’s a bit like starting over. And a friend says, “like hope.” And you think, “Ya. Exactly like hope.”
Read More
“All the times I imagined the future, I never saw this in it. So, now, when someone asks me what I think will happen, even about the simplest things, I shake my head and say, I don’t know for sure, but leave room for something wonderful.” - words (with one slight adaptation) by Brian Andreas
Read More
Most apple, plum, sweet cherry and pear trees are cross-pollinating or self-unfruitful, they need another tree for pollination, and not one of the same variety, but a different variety of the same fruit. It reminds me of relationship and how beautiful it is that it’s echoed even in nature - a carefully and wonderfully made system.
We’ve been hearing a lot about these little guys lately. Mostly, about how to get rid of them. So we thought of sharing a bit about dandelions:
There are these times, the Lord asks us to wait. A year before I felt the call to start Food + Grace, I prayed on what I could do to help. I have two little kids that need tending to, but other than that, I have laundry and a whole day to offer help, volunteer, and just generally do something. The Lord? He told me I was already doing something, and there was more, but please, for now, wait.
Read More