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Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go
After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden
Faith The Size of a Mustard Seed: A Review of Katy Carl’s As Earth Without Water
As Earth Without Water got me thinking about the mystery of seeds, the mystery of faith, and the mystery of Divine action in the world. The novel is not about…
Reading Seed Catalogs for Pleasure and Profit
Gardeners are a modest and sober breed, not much given to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life. We are generally free…
Cultivating the Candy Roaster: An Extensive Pleasure
In the spring of this year, some students and I created a modest Heritage Garden—420 square feet of raised beds built from two-by-twelves and filled with a topsoil and compost…
Throwing Nothing Away
“Nature like a good householder throws away nothing of which anything useful can be made.” Aristotle, On the Generation of Animals It is delightful to think that nature already does…