Vegetables offer a double dose of health, besides the Vitamins they contain. Vegetables are wonderful in detoxing the system, as well as being tonifying. A good detox plan includes vegetables and herbs/spices. A good tonic also includes vegetables, herbs/spices. Different ones help the body in different ways, but the fact of the matter is, our Creator created everything the human body needs to run at peak efficiency. We just need to get back to real food.
We will be sharing a seven week program to help detox the body and curb the unhealthy cravings, while establishing a healthy, balanced diet. There is no specific day of the week this must begin, so what ever day you find yourself reading this, head on over to our new Page featuring the program: G-d's Weigh Out
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Gardening
Some of us have less than a month until we can begin planting the garden. Others have a bit more time to wait, or prepare, as the case may be. I was hoping to have huge glorious photos of a flourishing green house, but that didn't happen as hoped. I've got greens going, and for the first time ever, I'm actually raising parsnips, but it's really been nothing to brag about yet. It would seem, I need to start these even earlier than I did. The Land of Goshen, here in SWMO continues to be a work in progress.
Several people have asked me just what I plan to do through Shemitah. How will I keep myself busy? I've replied with varying jesting comments, but I really hope I spend that year as a Shabbat, as well. I've been working very hard at a number of projects, and although I haven't perfected some of them, I have made progress. I'm believing I'm going to enjoy the break, and there will still be goats to milk and calves to feed, as well as picking what grows "wild."
The orchard has a wonderful edible broad leaf that makes delicious salad and grows with determined propensity. The lane is lined with dewberries, blackberries, and grapes. In all my years of homesteading, I've yet to see a year that didn't have some vining volunteers of the last year, so I think I'm approaching this Shemitah with the wonderment of a child . . . a child of the Most High.
As an adult with a call and responsibility, I must sound the warning, that this is the last garden and vine tending year before the land rests, so use this time wisely. If you simply have no way to plant anything, then my suggestion would be to increase the pantry inventory through this time. If our Creator causes the land to rest, I have no idea what to expect on the market shelves. We've got plenty of non-food already available and much of what we consume doesn't grow anyway, so perhaps that will be the supply.
I can't say, at this time, I can only recommend that we get the garden growing and the pantry well stocked.
Several people have asked me just what I plan to do through Shemitah. How will I keep myself busy? I've replied with varying jesting comments, but I really hope I spend that year as a Shabbat, as well. I've been working very hard at a number of projects, and although I haven't perfected some of them, I have made progress. I'm believing I'm going to enjoy the break, and there will still be goats to milk and calves to feed, as well as picking what grows "wild."
The orchard has a wonderful edible broad leaf that makes delicious salad and grows with determined propensity. The lane is lined with dewberries, blackberries, and grapes. In all my years of homesteading, I've yet to see a year that didn't have some vining volunteers of the last year, so I think I'm approaching this Shemitah with the wonderment of a child . . . a child of the Most High.
As an adult with a call and responsibility, I must sound the warning, that this is the last garden and vine tending year before the land rests, so use this time wisely. If you simply have no way to plant anything, then my suggestion would be to increase the pantry inventory through this time. If our Creator causes the land to rest, I have no idea what to expect on the market shelves. We've got plenty of non-food already available and much of what we consume doesn't grow anyway, so perhaps that will be the supply.
I can't say, at this time, I can only recommend that we get the garden growing and the pantry well stocked.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Facts
I am not trying to incite fear, I am, however; presenting facts. The photos included in this article were not take right before a winter storm warning. It was a week later and 40 some degrees. These were taken the 8th of January, 2014.
Also included in this article is the fact that we have one more growing season, planting and harvesting, before the shemitah a.k.a. the Sabbath of the land. We have lived a number of years in rebellion of this Instruction, and whether or not we honor the command, the land may indeed produce very little in the following year. We have become entirely too complacent and disconnected from our food supply.
I went to two grocery stores yesterday. Seeing what I saw in one, I had to check out the other one. The photos included are only from the first market, but I can say this. There were empty shelf spaces and one less aisle in the second store. The "front" displays are now moved back in both markets and the aisles have been reduced in length as I've been reporting for some time.
What used to be double sided signs over aisles are now single signs over the actual inventory. As in "Aisle 6" is actually just a sign on the wall over the freezer section now and "Aisle 5" is the double sided shelving containing the soda on one side and chips on the other. It's as if the word "aisle" is on it's way to new definition.
This is what I saw in the grocery store, January 8, 2014.
Sad, simply sad . . .
Also included in this article is the fact that we have one more growing season, planting and harvesting, before the shemitah a.k.a. the Sabbath of the land. We have lived a number of years in rebellion of this Instruction, and whether or not we honor the command, the land may indeed produce very little in the following year. We have become entirely too complacent and disconnected from our food supply.
I went to two grocery stores yesterday. Seeing what I saw in one, I had to check out the other one. The photos included are only from the first market, but I can say this. There were empty shelf spaces and one less aisle in the second store. The "front" displays are now moved back in both markets and the aisles have been reduced in length as I've been reporting for some time.
What used to be double sided signs over aisles are now single signs over the actual inventory. As in "Aisle 6" is actually just a sign on the wall over the freezer section now and "Aisle 5" is the double sided shelving containing the soda on one side and chips on the other. It's as if the word "aisle" is on it's way to new definition.
This is what I saw in the grocery store, January 8, 2014.
The empty potato display bin
the frozen meat section
Organic?
Sad, simply sad . . .
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