Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden
What I finally got done
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Hello Reader! I'll just say that up front. I had grand plans for this week: Double-digging the Zone 1 beds so I could finally get my edible flowers in the ground. And every single day, something intervened. Real life, doing what real life does. But here's what I did finish: I purged my home office. And I cleaned out the seed shop. If you've ever done a proper purge, you know it's not really about the stuff. It's about the clarity. It's a little bit like the Resurrection, actually. Lots of papers are making it to the compost pile. Lots of seeds are going to get planted. Something new coming from something old. I now have a proper seed inventory, and I wanted you to be the first to see it.
These 315 seed packets/jars cannot just stay in the boxes. We need to use them up!
April on a permaculture farm is not graceful. It's full and loud and a little behind schedule. But things are going in, and the soil is ready, and that's enough. We're also getting the farm ready for visitors in May... more on that soon. Grow abundantly, |
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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