More asparagus!

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The asparagus has been growing really well, so we’ve added ten more half-pound bunches. You might want to grab them though, as they go quickly!

Asparagus is one of those fun and easy vegetables to grow. They are a perennial plant, so they come back year after year. Deer don’t like them, so that isn’t a problem. Maybe a way to dip your toes into gardening?

On that note…

The Garden

A well-kept garden certainly is inspiring (despite the work involved!); it is a central idea in the first chapter of Genesis, and gardens are sources of food and beauty. But one of my favorite authors, Michael Pollan, paints a word picture better than anything I can come up with:

“The garden is a place of many sacraments, an arena – at once as common as any room and as special as a church – where we can go not just to witness but to enact, in a ritual way, our abiding ties to the natural world. Abiding, yet by now badly attenuated, for civilization seems bent on breaking or at least forgetting our connections to the earth. But in the garden the old bonds are preserved, and not merely as symbols. So we eat from the vegetable patch, and, if we’re paying attention, we’re recalled to our dependence on the sun and the rain and the everyday leaf-by-leaf alchemy we call photosynthesis.”

So wrapped up we can be in relationships, livelihoods, and other distractions without number that it is all too easy to forget and neglect our ties to natural surroundings, and that our bodies are part of this world of seasons and weather and all manner of birds and other animals and plants of infinite variety…Do yourself a favor and take a little time to be outside today.

Caroline McColloch
Chez Nous Farm
cheznousfarm@gmail.com

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