One of the things that I love most about gardening is getting to eat and drink through the seasons. I can almost hear you saying right now, “There is nothing like a homegrown tomato!” If you compare a vine-ripened tomato to one that you purchase in a supermarket there is no comparison. It wasn’t until […]
Jun 11, 2020
6 min
My grandma was born in 1919, and was raised in a very rural setting. It’s from her that I learned a lot of what I know about growing food, food preservation, herbs and life. One day, when she was in her late 90s, we were discussing organic gardening. We often discussed gardening, but this turned […]
Jun 5, 2020
5 min
It’s unfortunate that today, the practice of “herbalism” is more often than not intertwined with ungodliness. Herbalism becomes spiritualism and many times crosses lines that God’s Word tells us not to cross. Like many facets of life, people take something that God made—something He even intended for our good—and they corrupt it with evil. James […]
May 29, 2020
6 min
When I first started gardening, my focus was strictly on the plants that I was growing. I worked very hard to grow healthy plants that were free from pests and diseases and that would produce a good yield. I planted, watered, fertilized, supported, trellised and did everything that I knew to do to make sure […]
May 21, 2020
5 min
As a master gardener, one of the most common gardening mistakes that I see occurs each year in the spring. People are tired of the cold winter weather and are tired of being cooped up. They’ve started receiving annual seed catalogs in the mail that are filled with beautiful pictures and promising plants and are […]
May 14, 2020
5 min
I grew up hating tea! The only kind that was ever around was Lipton, and nothing about it appealed to me. Even when it was infused with an obscene amount of sugar I thought it tasted terrible. As a young adult I began to hear about all of the health benefits of green tea and […]
May 6, 2020
5 min
I went to college with a friend whose dad would do something every time we went to his house that would forever change my life. Upon hearing us come, he would immediately stop whatever he was doing and walk over and turn off the television. He would then invite us to sit down at the […]
Apr 30, 2020
5 min
I grew up in a rural setting where my parents always had a big vegetable garden and our neighbors had an orchard, so it’s surprising to me the number of people that are unaware of where their food comes from. According to the American Farm Bureau, “The average American is now at least three generations […]
Apr 15, 2020
5 min
Freedom is a precious thing. Have you ever thought about this, “How free are you if you don’t have the ability to provide food for yourself?” We discover very quickly that we are not so free when we’re hungry and can’t provide food for ourselves. We don’t know where our food comes from, and we […]
Apr 8, 2020
4 min