OUR GARDEN

Wendell Berry once said, “One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.” Without electric tools or combustion engines, without chemicals or pesticides, and with our hands and our bodies and our minds, we spent the afternoon in our garden, a place of growth for both the seed planted and the seed planter. We garden as a community, a skill and art form and important way of life being forgotten. We grow food to entertain our minds and our bodies, to have food readily available for the table, so that we know where our food has come from, so that we can experience miracles, so that we can watch the energy cycle that revolves from soil to seed to flower to fruit to food to offal to decay, and around again. With so many helping hands we were able to plant corn, tomatoes, carrots, squash, cucumber, sweet pepper, hot pepper, and cabbage. Thanks for all your help everyone!

The seed is in the ground.
Now we may rest in hope
While darkness does its work.