Well, I am home from beautiful Montana. Huckleberries were lots of fun to find. I am preparing for the homeschool start and gathering curriculum from all areas of my home and community. Found a cool homeschool support group to bounce ideas off. Putting together a Unit Study for Africa to start things off. Altogether going fine. I have been to see the two gardens - my backyard and the community garden. Both are crazy wild with weeds after only 2 weeks of my neglect, but are starting to produce yummy deliciousness. I was worried that all my raspberries would be overripe by the time I got home, but it turned out just fine. They are beautiful, big berries and taste awesome!
Bad news is that I got sick. So this weekend was my first opportunity to participate in a gleaning event in my community - and I couldn't go. Such a bummer. They were gleaning a field of sweet corn. Yum! I guess they had been getting lots of yummies for the food bank! Maybe they will have another project soon that I can be involved in. Such an awesome activity and way to help your local hungry folk. Wish I could do more. When I think of all that produce just going to waste if it doesn't get gathered by someone it breaks my heart. I would like to take my oldest son with me. I really want to cultivate a servant's heart in my children (one of our homeschool goals this year) and this kind of opportunity would really be good for him! I will have to check and see what ages are invited to participate.
The main organizer of our church's community garden informed me that my in-ground garden was going wild and we will need a legion to help pick the beans. So cool! I have three young grasshoppers with too much energy anyway! And I can authorize them to be in my field. We have beens, pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, beets (TONS of beets), some kind of pepper, and some mystery plants that I can't remember what they are - I was just having too much fun sticking stuff in the ground. I think they may be brussel sprouts, but I am not sure - never grown them before. A few stalks of the original cornfield did come up, so they are also scattered about. What a conglomeration! But I am very glad that I stuck those seeds in the ground or else nothing but the corn would be there for harvesting now and instead we have a variety of fresh produce to donate and use within our church family, too! God's creation is truly amazing.
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