Comments on: Planting is Prayer

By: Ann Boyd

Ann Boyd — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:04:50 +0000

You’re giving me more reasons not to panic this summer when Lucy starts eating dirt (it’s inevitable, I know). :)

By: kriss

kriss — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:55:45 +0000

I just read this really fantastic bit in the Omnivore’s Dilemma about the reason organic produce has demonstrably more nutrients and anti-oxidants than conventionally grown. Apparently these compounds are created as mechanisms for the plants to fight off bad predators and disease. They are natural pesticides! When we do the fighting for the plants, they don’t make the things they should. Growing without chemicals is a win-win – the good bugs keep the soil loose and healthy, while the plants fight off the bad bugs themselves, in turn giving us polyphenols that fight disease in us! More on this later…

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:58:15 +0000

Our family used to have a ritual of “thanking the worms” when we would turn over the dirt for our garden. It was founded as a way to occupy those that were to little to help. But I agree, the worms and bugs work all the time to make the dirt what we need it to be!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:57:14 +0000

Rudyard Kipling wrote: “Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees / that half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees.”