Water

The soil is so moist that there’s no real need to water the newly sown seeds. But we knew what the sign said: Sow Weed Water Wait We’d supplied ourselves with watering cans, so we couldn’t dream of  leaving until we did the watering step. Jim and the...

Sow

We smoothed out the soil and Abby searched through all the seed packets to find the radishes. Then she had a sixty-second lesson on square-foot-gardening. We were planting two squares, thirty-two radishes. I marked out the grid and her nimble fingers did a great job...

Learning to Love the Earth

I feel pretty passionate about teaching children to cherish God’s creation. The earth gives us so many gifts. It’s important to receive them with gratitude and respect. Food growing from a tiny seed? Well, all I can say is that it’s a miracle – one...