Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
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Hello, Reader, We have honey! The tomatoes are still green but growing really well right now. Yes, there are still things that are getting eaten by deer (like potatoes and every unprotected sunfower and zinnia on our property). But we've got beets coming in so fast we're having a beet salad every other day! This abundance is exactly the "problem" we set out to have when we started growing our own food eleven years ago. Dave and I did not know how to answer that question. We just knew we had to start somewhere. So my husband Dave and I started reading and watching and writing down everything about growing food — about soil, about observation, about working with the land instead of against it. About what permaculture actually is when you strip away the theory and get your hands in the dirt. We even got certified in Permaculture by two different teachers! More than a reference book, it serves as the workbook we wish we had in those early years to answer our ongoing questions. It is practical, honest, and designed to be used. Written in, returned to, carried into the garden. Don't forget that, on earth, every big thing has had a small beginning. What is born big is monstrous and dies. This book is composed of small steps to guide you along your own unique garden journey. We hope it brings you a bountiful life both the physical and spiritual. Get your copy here: Permaculture Gardening for Everyone at the Mother Earth News store or on Amazon. |
Dave & Nicky Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
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Take time to draw your garden Inspired by Lara Call Gastinger's "Perpetual Journal Practice" and the works of Roger Tory Peterson, I started capturing my garden in this way. And I hope that despite the heat, and perhaps the mosquitoes this summer, we can all still find time to observe nature and perhaps draw it. Drawing forces you to truly look at something. And in a world of digital distraction, may very well be the last bastion of focus. That and prayer, I suppose. And there are...
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