The Green Thumb is a Myth – Advice for Beginning Gardeners: Garden Fearlessly I said something in a video this past Sunday, “You cannot screw up a garden.” This is so true! So many people are afraid to start because they have become intimidated believing they do not have this proverbial “green thumb.” Let me…
I used to wonder why people stay in churches for years, decades even, and never grow. They never stop sucking on the teat, and they never grow to be able to handle the real meat of the Word. They remain stuck as babies.
Part of harvesting is gathering the seed from the harvest, drying it out, and saving it for planting next season, because a true gardener is always looking ahead to what is coming. I learned something new recently about saving the seed that I find quite intriguing, and whether you garden or not, I hope you can garner some understanding in the many references to winnowing, separating the chaff from the wheat, and the good seed from the chaff.
My mother used to tell me, “waste not, want not.” I don’t know about you, but I get a little disgusted at having to throw away or compost what was once really good and delicious food! Food that we worked hard to make money to buy or to grow in our garden. Have you ever gotten to the end of the week or the end of batch cooking for the week and wondered what to do with the vegetables that are left over? You don’t want them to go to waste, but you don’t quite know what to do with them either.
