Gardeners often love to pore over seed catalogs, dreaming about which new varieties to try this year, planning their gardens in meticulous detail, and then put their planning into practice. Much time can be spent in tending and loving on their plants while watching for the fruit of their labor to produce, well, fruit. But what about those gardeners that don’t have a lot of time on their hands? These days, many people are working more than they ever have before in the effort to make ends meet, and they have less time than ever
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With all of the things calling for your attention on the homestead, it’s all too easy to get distracted and procrastinate and never give certain jobs the attention they deserve.  Whatever those jobs are, they really do need to get done. Sometimes that need is to ensure success of your crop or the health of your animals; other times that need is for your own sanity. Let’s face it; it feels good to check a job off of the list! Here are some ideas that might make it easier to get the job done: Set
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The kingdom of this world/Is become the kingdom of our Lord, And of His Christ, and of His Christ;/And He shall reign forever and ever… —“The Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah Time… it is the one unifying constant, besides death, across the earth. We all march to the beat of its drum. Minutes stream into hours. Hours step into days, and days creep into years. Yet time does not just mark the passing of one generation into the next, or one season from the other. Within God’s calendar, time marks new beginnings, the passing away
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Maybe you are too young to remember, but there was once a time when packaged seed was rare. In those days, next year’s harvest depended on successfully harvesting seed from this year’s vegetables. Saving seed may not be as necessary today, but it does allow you to continue growing heirloom vegetables that seed companies no longer carry. While the process for saving seed is easy, you do need to start earlier than you think. So let’s start with the basics: Gather seed only from open-pollinated plants, not hybrids. Hybrids are genetically engineered, not the way
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Ps. 90:12). Foucault’s Pendulum (1989) is Umberto Ecco’s brilliant satire on conspiracy thinking, especially in its New Age forms.  Its protagonist and his friends, book publishers by trade, devise a fictional occult conspiracy, come up with its goal, and plot
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