Gardening is Holy Work

Gardening is Holy Work

On grass-stained knees
With dirty hands
Earth-scent filling the air

Humbly submitting to rain

and sun and drought and cold

To bugs and bunnies taking their share

To being one with all creation.

Gardening is Holy Work.

(March 11, 2025)

March 8 - Before

March 10 - Preparing the ground

March 11 - A beginning, greens in the ground
(buttercrunch and romaine lettuce, swiss chard and spinach plus parsley and kale)

March 11 - First shoots of asparagus

Fifty years ago we began gardening in this spot on Shalom Farm, in cooperation with Anna and Jake Smith whose farm it was.  Bill and I later bought 2 acres from them that included our little house and the garden plot.