Thanks to our Master Gardener Dorothy Clement and her very able apprentices, Laurel and Izzy Bird, and a host of volunteers from Mount Jubilee Ministries and from the Covenant Classical educational network, the Homestead gardens have been more prolific this year than ever before.
Thomas More once wrote:
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided.
How true that is! And what a delight it is to tip a hat to the many joyful hands who have brought to this community so many “firsts” this year: the first Homestead salsa, the first bottles of hot honey, the first bountiful yield of canned pears (preserved in a cinnamon and honey syrup to die for!), our first confetti pepper and hot apricot (habanero) pepper jelly, pickled banner peppers, Homestead lavender-honey soaps, and more!
Plus, flowers galore, like we’ve never had before. The simple, restful beauty of it all has inspired us to plant beds of “pick-your-own” happy zinnias and cosmos this Autumn to multiply the joy for farm visitors next Spring.
What a gift, are gardens in the world! Indeed, Frances Hodgson Burnett got it right when she observed:
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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