Posts Tagged ‘planting a vegetable garden’

Learning to produce our own food is essential if we are to ever truly take control of our own lives.  It liberates us from the role of passive consumer, remote from real decisions, alienated from nature. -Primal Seeds

This past weekend, we were finally able to plant our vegetable garden.  Our whole garden is usually planted  no later than May 15 most years.  But the weather this Spring has been unseasonably cool.  More than a few neighbors planted their vegetables, only to have them wiped out by a killing frost.

Ever year as we plant our vegetables, I am struck by what an act of faith it is.  The plants seem so small and helpless in the big space of earth around them.  It’s hard to imagine that they could ever amount to much.

But year after year, most of them surprise me, and provide our family with an abundance of delicious things to eat.  I can almost just taste those garden tomatoes now.