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Homeopathy | My Favorite Books on Herbal Medicine
Gardening allows you to have an abundance of healing nutrition right at your finger tips. I'm still growing in knowledge regarding homeopathic/herbal medicine, and these resources have helped me decide what I want to plant in our backyard to help build our immune...
Cultivation of the Soul | A Different Kind of Growth
The garden has and always will be a cultivator of my soul, not just of plants. I’ve been trying to find time to write lately, but time seems to be in short supply. Not wanting to write a depressing blog about all the things that have been hard right now, or say the...
Waiting on God for the Glory of God | Growing Nursery Plants
Just as I wait for these Honeyberries to develop, there can be great beauty in the waiting. See that lovely bumblebee eating away? I was reading a blog posting this morning about waiting on God, so that God can be glorified in the situation, and it struck right to the...
Resurrection Sunday | A Gardener’s Perspective on Easter
There it was, in the midst of all the dried up remnants of last years' vibrant, abundantly productive garden... new life. I wandered out to the pasture garden yesterday after watering plants at the greenhouse. It would be my first up close look since last fall when I...
The Expansion of Developing Roots | A Place to Land
Developing Roots goal has always been to do two things; help people grow food and to provide a place for people to break free from the pressures of life and into a deeper relationship with the Lord. Up until now, these things happened in my backyard; mostly developing...
What I Would Plant in a Small Garden
You can grow food just about anyway. Yes, even you. The truth is you may not, and probably won’t, get it all right the first time around. That’s okay, everyone has to start somewhere. Everyone’s growing conditions are a little different. I could plant the same things...
How To Plan A Garden Well
In the last blog I talked about why planning the layout for your garden prior to planting season is so important. Today, we’re going to expand on that topic into how to begin planning your garden. Keep in mind, even if you don’t have time to plan things out for...
Planning a Garden | Why it’s the most important step of the growing season.
Now is the perfect time to start planning the layout of your garden for the coming season. The days are getting longer again, the sun is beginning to shine more, and we start dreaming of picking those first fruits from the garden once again. I don't know about you,...
Grow great carrots this year!
Carrots, specifically the growing of carrots, can be a bit frustrating at times. The seeds are small, they can be tricky to germinate, and somehow one carrot can transform into an octopus throughout the season. It doesn’t have to be this way! There are a few things...
Why You Should Plant Different Varieties of Tomatoes
The art of getting stuck in analysis paralysis. It’s that time of year where you begin dreaming of the coming garden season, what you’ll plant and which tomatoes you’re going to grow. You scan through the different varieties, from beefsteak to cherry, yellow, red,...