Om Ah Hung, Organic Seeds, and Prayers for an Untroubled World
Our homestead's new symbol of peace
Om Ah Hung
The spring garden seeds have arrived!
I
may be rushing winter, but…I just got delivery of the seeds for the 2015 spring
greens garden! Two kinds of lettuce, kale, and flat-leaf parsley. They arrived
in the post Friday; I just sat and held them for the longest time.
Growing
from seeds is budget-conscious and easy, plus it lets you control source.
Fledgling plants bought at the nursery or market come from God-knows-where,
grown under questionable conditions. With a hearty side dose of pesticides and
fungicides. No, thank you.
I
grow Franchi Italian seeds (www.grownitalian.com),
a great organic cultivar imported from Italy with an almost 100 percent germination
rate. The plant quality is virtuoso, better than anything I’ve seen. I had
Franchi greens growing all through summer last year, despite the heat. My
husband and I were eating fresh lettuces and kale well into October.
Seeds
of Change is also a great source for 100% certified organic seeds (www.seedsofchange.com).
Grow
your own organic foods, beloved. You will help in protecting water quality, preventing
soil erosion, promoting biodiversity, and keeping chemicals off your plate.
Mono-cropping is bad for us and the Earth.
The
average child today, fed on a non-organic diet, receives an estimated four
times more exposure than an adult to at least 80 widely used cancer causing pesticides.
Grow
organic. Grow your own.
At
home, the place that last year we christened Four Truths Homestead, we have
taken down the Christmas glitter and hung our new symbol of peace at the front
of the house, a twig-and-branch symbol of harmonic brilliance. I got it on the
cheap at Garden of Light natural foods in Avon. Garden of Light is my source
for veggies and other good stuff in winter.
Peace,
please. With recent events in Paris and throughout Europe, Nigeria, and the
Middle East, we are praying fervently to an end to this wretched violence. Namaste;
send them the green angel light ray - green is the healing light.
So
OK, it’s only January. But these cold-hardy greens seeds are going into the
ground in March, just two months away. That marks the beginning of the growing
season, and the resurrection of this winter-weary soul.
xoxoxo
Om ah hung: mind, speech, body of
Buddha.
May we continuously abide in peace in all our activities.xoxoxo
