I recommend you take a read through this link and next week, we'll provide several images and links to some wonderful "small garden" gardening ideas.
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/02/18/15-reasons-why-your-food-bill-is-going-to-start-soaring/
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Straw Gardening
Our Creator created humans to tend the garden. It's looking like the sky's the limit on finding creative ways to garden.
This site is full of good ideas and information.
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/
This site is full of good ideas and information.
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/
Sunday, March 16, 2014
To Everything There is a Season
The season to prepare for the rest of the year according to the calendar of YHWH is just about upon us. We are just a couple of weeks from the first month on our Creator's calendar. It is not presumption or a lack of faith to recognize His seasons and prepare as His Word Instructs. This is seed time, and if a harvest is expected, the planting season cannot be ignored. Our society has been drawn away from YHWH's plan for so long, most of us are out of touch with even the concept of seed time and harvest.
A particular pet peeve of mine is to hear people complaining about rain in the spring! Throughout Scripture, rain is a blessing from YHWH. There was that one big incident in Genesis, but He's promised that won't happen again, and even then, His people were blessed to be saved, and once again be agrarian when the boat docked. We need rain in it's season and spring time is the season we need it. I'm enjoying the appearance of green at the end of the tree branches and just above the ground. Every drop of rain is nourishing the pastures and the tender shoots in the garden, as well as the delicate leaves of the fruit trees.
Realizing we've become so distant from our food supply and religion has been teaching for years, that money and material possessions are blessings, rather than rain. I'm going to preach, now! Many of us are familiar with Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
I discovered only recently that the same Hebrew words here in Malachi 3 are the same words used in Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
This is the season to receive the blessing poured out from the open windows of heaven. Most offerings were bread or meat, while tithes were often, produce. The blessing is rain!
A particular pet peeve of mine is to hear people complaining about rain in the spring! Throughout Scripture, rain is a blessing from YHWH. There was that one big incident in Genesis, but He's promised that won't happen again, and even then, His people were blessed to be saved, and once again be agrarian when the boat docked. We need rain in it's season and spring time is the season we need it. I'm enjoying the appearance of green at the end of the tree branches and just above the ground. Every drop of rain is nourishing the pastures and the tender shoots in the garden, as well as the delicate leaves of the fruit trees.
Realizing we've become so distant from our food supply and religion has been teaching for years, that money and material possessions are blessings, rather than rain. I'm going to preach, now! Many of us are familiar with Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
I discovered only recently that the same Hebrew words here in Malachi 3 are the same words used in Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
This is the season to receive the blessing poured out from the open windows of heaven. Most offerings were bread or meat, while tithes were often, produce. The blessing is rain!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Get Growing!
Old news is now foundational law. This report is not hot off the presses, but since the bill was drafted by my very own "representative," I want to take this opportunity to remind folks, we are not being represented in Washington DC. Please do something to regain or maintain some independence in regard to the food supply. We've got to get growing, because history has proven whoever controls the food will control the people!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-protection-act-signed-by-obama-gmo-bill-written-by-monsanto-signed-into-law/5329388
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-protection-act-signed-by-obama-gmo-bill-written-by-monsanto-signed-into-law/5329388
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Chemical Replacements Are Poison
I seem to be a on a roll this week of building slightly offensive acronyms. Actually, the acronym is pretty accurate as it applies to our food supply and our economy.
It's as if this chemical consumption for calorie control that began nearly 50 years ago, has changed the standard of food forever. Now our food is loaded with chemical, but that is not the only problem. We pay extra for organic and pure food, while obesity and diabetes are at an all time high. Something certainly seems amiss! Surely this was not the goal! Does this fall in the category of "unintended consequences?"
The best way, maybe the only way, to know what's in your food is to prepare it yourself, from the beginning. When I was a young home maker, healthy meals were fairly simple and basic. The advice was, to shop around outer edges of the grocery store. Fresh produce, dairy, meat, and bread were uniformly on the outer walls of every grocery store. They may vary to a degree, but the variance was minimal. It served as a good rule of thumb to avoid prepackaged and high sodium products.
Since the advent of GMOs, eating healthy and natural has become a bit more difficult. GMO labeling is not required, so we don't know if our fresh produce will sprout on the way home or has the DNA of a digestive track of it's own. USDA standards regarding meat and milk are hazy to say the least.
As I think of all the things I wish I'd known to teach my kids when they were growing up, this is one that simply was not an issue then. I didn't let them have diet products when they were young, and GMO produce was not even an issue until the mid nineties. This GMO issue has gained such momentum so quickly, there is really only one way to stop the impact, and that's on a personal level.
By the time our grandchildren are parents, real food may actually be a thing of the past. The only way to insure pure food, and that only by the protection of our Creator, is to raise our own. It's already been proven that GMO dominates in cross pollinations, so as I said, it will only be by the protection of our Creator to bless the work of our hands in tending the garden.
Thinking about a spring garden puts a smile on my face, even as the "drizmal" winter weather continues. If space is an issue check out square foot gardening.
It's as if this chemical consumption for calorie control that began nearly 50 years ago, has changed the standard of food forever. Now our food is loaded with chemical, but that is not the only problem. We pay extra for organic and pure food, while obesity and diabetes are at an all time high. Something certainly seems amiss! Surely this was not the goal! Does this fall in the category of "unintended consequences?"
The best way, maybe the only way, to know what's in your food is to prepare it yourself, from the beginning. When I was a young home maker, healthy meals were fairly simple and basic. The advice was, to shop around outer edges of the grocery store. Fresh produce, dairy, meat, and bread were uniformly on the outer walls of every grocery store. They may vary to a degree, but the variance was minimal. It served as a good rule of thumb to avoid prepackaged and high sodium products.
Since the advent of GMOs, eating healthy and natural has become a bit more difficult. GMO labeling is not required, so we don't know if our fresh produce will sprout on the way home or has the DNA of a digestive track of it's own. USDA standards regarding meat and milk are hazy to say the least.
As I think of all the things I wish I'd known to teach my kids when they were growing up, this is one that simply was not an issue then. I didn't let them have diet products when they were young, and GMO produce was not even an issue until the mid nineties. This GMO issue has gained such momentum so quickly, there is really only one way to stop the impact, and that's on a personal level.
By the time our grandchildren are parents, real food may actually be a thing of the past. The only way to insure pure food, and that only by the protection of our Creator, is to raise our own. It's already been proven that GMO dominates in cross pollinations, so as I said, it will only be by the protection of our Creator to bless the work of our hands in tending the garden.
Thinking about a spring garden puts a smile on my face, even as the "drizmal" winter weather continues. If space is an issue check out square foot gardening.
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