Today was World Toilet Day

Did you know that today was World Toilet Day.  It sounds to most of us as though someone is cracking a joke, but the lack of toilets is no joke for the 2.5 billion people in our world who lack adequate sanitation
The World Toilet Organisation themselves are encouraging website visitors to head over to EndWaterPoverty.org [...]

Pee To Help Your Garden Grow

Ever wondered what the missing ingredient in your compost pile was?  Here is an article I just could not resist sharing.  I thought that all my male gardening friends in particular would be interested.   Evidently peeing on the garden is a great way to contribute to the compost pile and saves water too.
Gardeners at [...]

Fruit That Will Last

Tom and I are now at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg Virginia still trying to get our clocks turned around from the trip to Australia.  This is definitely not the best way to model a balanced way of life though I am really looking forward to our time here.
Part of my morning Bible reading was [...]

Catching the Rhythm of God

last night I conducted my first ever Spirituality of Gardening seminar here in Australia and this morning shared with the students at the World View Institute. Afterwards the students went out to spend half an hour wandering the gardens, reflecting on the lessons that God was teaching them.  Many came back with deep insights about [...]

Maybe Religion is the Answer Claims Atheist Scientist

Late yesterday afternoon I took a break from my usual activities and followed some of the fun and interesting links that I had come across in the last few days.  Yes that is the kind of thing that I do for relaxation.
Most of them explore different aspects of autumn (sorry to my readers in the [...]

Loving the Unloveable

I was just reading an article this morning about the wildlife we like to attract to our garden.  It talked about the fact that all of us love to see nice furry creatures like squirrels and winged creature like colourful birds and buuterflies out our windows.  We tend to ignore the destructiveness of some of [...]

First Apple Cake for the Season

I just made my first apple cake for the season for our MSA Board meeting tomorrow.  It is a great way for me to relax once I have all my materials ready for the Board members.
Our apple crop is not as big as usual but there are still plenty to enjoy.  This recipe was given [...]

God of the Bountiful – A Harvest Prayer

This morning I was sitting in our breakfast room looking out on my gloriously productive garden and feeling a little overwhelmed.  Then I read through one of the prayers that I had written for our Celtic retreat in August and decided that it would be a good one to adapt as a harvest prayer.  God’s [...]

What Do We do With All the Tomatoes?

Yesterday I posted a twitter update that read “Enjoying the aroma of drying tomatoes.”  Unfortunately some of my facebook friends interpreted that as “dying tomatoes”  and so there have been a few rather pointed comments about the state of my garden.  That of course made me realize that I have been rather silent about what [...]

Colouring as a Spiritual Practice

Greets from a cool and overcast Seattle.  My beans are growing, tomatoes ripening and squash proliferating.  Last night I was furiously processing some of the produce before Tom and I head out of town tomorrow afternoon for a few days – made 2 Hunza pies and a cheesy tomato bake to take with us.  Dried [...]