May/June 2017 Shepherdess Voice

More documents

Recommendations

Info

GOD'S PLAN: SOW, HOE, GROW! B Y D I A N E K O B O R Growing up on an 80-acre farm, our family yearly blocked and thinned 10 acres of sugar beets and used our hoes and sickles on 20 acres of navy beans. Although the farm has been sold, I’m glad our parents put farming and gardening into our educational program. Agriculture is the most important manual training we can give to our children. Let them have their own plot this year! “It was God’s plan for man to till the earth; . . . the first man, the ruler of the whole world, was given a garden to cultivate” (CG 356). After the Flood, God promised us “seedtime and harvest” until the end of the world (Genesis 8:22). Gardening includes landscaping, small fruits, and orchards. Plant flowers, shrubs, and trees for joy and beauty. Try God’s natural planting schedule provided by the daffodils, forsythia, flowering quince, lilacs, honeysuckle, and peonies. When these are in full bloom, they are planting signals! Put in your sweet peas in when the daffodils bloom, plant corn during lilac season, and let the peonies tell you to put in your eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes. Check out this article by Dr. William Eyster from Organic Gardening at http://amazinghealth.com/AH-natures-planting-table
A quick inventory of the freezers and jars helps “A prudent man foresees the evil,” and gets ready for the evil days (Proverbs 27:12). us decide which vegetables to emphasize in this year’s garden: no more Jerusalem artichokes needed, still plenty of frozen Like salvation and soul winning, gardening requires that we cooperate with our Creator. zucchini, but our canned and dehydrated tomatoes are running low. The local farm Faithfulness in the little duties of watering, weeding, thinning, and pest control will bring supply store has the best prices for seed per ounce or pound, and the Amish raise good rich rewards while giving us many spiritual object lessons. Because we share our starter plants for us. Adding large amounts of manure, leaves, grass clippings, and other vegetables and advice, our friends have also begun gardens of their own. organic matter every year will improve both clay and sandy soils. Gardening provides better exercise than the gym, plus you’ll receive the added benefits of We use a modified “bed and path” system with the “beds” of dirt one to two feet wide, sunshine, fresh air, deeper sleep, and organic produce! Remember, God met Adam and his depending on the vegetable, separated by paths about 18 inches wide. This gives plenty of wife each evening in the garden. Don’t forget to meet Him there! room for Bela to run the Mantis tiller down each path for most of the growing season. Gardening prepares us physically, mentally, and emotionally for these last days. “Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one” (AH 14)
Page 1 and 2: Shepherdess Voice T H E O F F I C I
Page 3 and 4: TRUE SANCTIFICATION COMES THROUGH T
Page 5 and 6: She continued, "Lorraine still come
Page 7 and 8: LINDSEY MILLS I TAKE BREAD TO THEM,
Page 9 and 10: TAMARA CONWAY BAKE BREAD, OR TREATS
Page 11 and 12: CASSANDRA MCNULTY WE TAKE FAMILY WA
Page 13: ALICE: MY HUSBAND LETS PHONE CALLS
Page 17 and 18: is one of the most impactful What y

May/June 2017 Shepherdess Voice

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?