It's garden season! To recap my garden adventures last year: I started the growing season of 2007 with the idea of planting my great-grandmother’s heirloom tomatoes, but was unsuccessful at getting seeds to start. So instead I planted a few baby tomato plants in a small garden in my backyard. Again, unsuccessful. A disease, or maybe too much nitrogen in the soil, left my tomato plants deformed and bearing no fruit. But, abiding by the “if at first you don’t succeed” idea, I am really excited for my very large garden project this summer. I am one of the managers of my church’s garden program we've started this spring.
We broke ground on a 75 by 100 foot garden plot, and all the produce it yields will either be donated directly to charity or sold and the proceeds will be given to local food distribution centers. I am so excited about this great program.
I know even the most avid canner out there has a hard time keeping up with the amount of produce that comes out of a garden about midsummer. This summer, I challenge you to give your surplus to a local food distribution charity. Do you use up all you grow? Then I challenge you to consider planting an extra row this year, and give your surplus to people in need.
We’re all feeling stretched, stressed, anxious. Webster doesn’t have enough words to describe the emotions we feel during hard economic times. But I think when we focus some of our worry to the needs of others, we find that maybe the burden we bear is not so heavy, after all.
God Bless,
