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Humanity carries a burden of great responsibility to this beautiful planet. It might be impossible for man as a whole, in the mortal stage, to live in perfect harmony with nature but, as individuals, we must never stop trying. Yet perhaps, if by unlocking the mysteries of her bosom, who knows but that the children of earth might not perish in ignorance?
I feel grateful to share what I believe the world’s most holistic gardening method, superior in every way that matters. less water, less work, complete nutrition and more abundance, the future of food is in a great stage of awakening. I will introduce the most exciting and basic gardening secret along with simple techniques you need to successfully grow a wildly productive nutrient dense food garden for yourself and family. Doing this requires that some of natures most basic key principles are balanced and obeyed. One is the principle of “abundance” which is that by having you get more and by not having you lose, even that which you have.
but first, an intro…
I grew up working hard. My father always had a BIG garden and we practically grew enough food for the entire neighborhood. Each year we repeated tasks like tilling, furrowing, seeding, watering, harvesting etc. My dad had the softest most beautiful dark loamy soil you've ever seen. It grew everything. Gifting produce to the neighbors so as to not let it go to waste felt like a necessity. I learned to love the garden and wanted to pass that love to my children.
As a young father, I was rudely awakened to the reality that my boys were more accustom to picking up their toys than picking weeds. What’s more, modern electronics had somehow made a presence in our home. At the time, I found myself looking down from my balcony pondering over the sad little garden growing in dry hard clay before me. I had a genuine desire to expose my children to self sufficiency similar to how I was raised but there was limited opportunity. I only had a small lot with an even smaller garden. I felt I was failing them. The garden wasn’t producing well but I also didn’t know what I was doing wrong. Buried in ignorance I still held the assumption that poor soil only improved over years of tilling. At the present I fought hard compacted soil that grew better weeds than anything else. It would be some time yet before I understood how weeds were natures way of attempting to heal.
I was confused by most conventional gardening methods. They don’t feel right or natural. Most plants on the planet thrive without aid in their respective climates but humans are cursed to micromanage their food in order to maximize results. I never took time to challenge the way man does things because someone else does it. In Genesis 3:19 God allegedly cursed Adam that “by the sweat of his face” he should eat his bread. In my mind it sounded like that argument was settled. Farming was intended to be HARD WORK so, the only question remaining is, who is going to do it? Scientists and farmers make it easier by the day so “hooray for science!” If you believe you are doomed by Adams curse, then large scale farming with massive combines, GPS autopilot, endless water pivots, engineered seeds and advanced chemicals start to look a lot like salvation from Adam’s curse. Considering the rate our nation is becoming increasingly dependent on a multi billion dollar import fertilizer industry while soils are eroding, I have begun to realize that nothing is further from the truth. With major illnesses and nutrition related disease on the rise it would appear we have only brought upon ourselves a new curse. Now some are beginning to ask questions. Others, are even asking the right ones.
My father always amended the dirt by tilling in manure and organic crop waste. This ancient practice is a small step up from commercial farming but still a long way from natures intended holistic method. I later learned my dad had inherited a field of perfect loam when a flood deposited it from the neighbors up the street. The empty lot beside us was pure granite rock. I know because as a kid I tried to dig in it. I had assumed my dad created his soil from gardening. later I learned it was a gift of the good Lord’s grace.
That day on my balcony, however, everything was different. I had just experienced a mighty awakening. I stumbled across a documentary called Back To Eden Gardening by Dana and Sarah Films and watched it at least twice. It cut me right to the very center of my core. I was enthralled by the music and the message and I began raving to my wife about this strange gardening technique that was unlike anything I had ever before seen or heard. I was buzzing with excitement. The documentary was about a man named Paul who grew his vegies and orchards in woodchips. He never tilled or watered yet his massive vegetables topped the charts in juiciness and flavor. Each year he simply laid down whatever mulch he could mixed with chicken compost. I was stunned! Not because it all made perfect sense (because it didn’t) but because this man, who had access to very little water, developed his method out of desperation by listening to nature. I was in awe because he turned to God, heard him speak and changed his ways. I judged this Paul to be a good honest man and felt a voice inside telling me “this is what you need to know right now''. For the first time in my life I was beginning to consider that perhaps God should be allowed to be my only gardening instructor. Why not learn from the best? The message is simple, we the people are doing it wrong and should take a second look. We may even need to keep looking at it for quite a while yet.
The globe, with all diversity of life, is a completely self sufficient ecosystem. Life thrives on its own without man overseeing any of it. The only outside resource sustaining our planet is FREE sunlight. can you sense how incredibly generous that is? This simple but profound concept is easily overlooked. Perhaps science and technology leads man to forget his place and suppose himself superior to nature?