The SHA students have entered the retreat readily and with enthusiasm.
They enjoyed pizza and salad made from fresh garden ingredients with the Garden staff and some of the sisters who live nearby, they learned the steps involved in animal care. SHA students shared their hopes for the week and what they look forward to being with each other and getting to know one another. They all have garden/farm/animal interests, so they were engaged in many fruitful ways.
THE GARDEN MISSION
We engage in diversified gardening as a model of sound, natural gardening , planting a variety of crops, rotating them regularly, and using the silent plants, weeds, grass and leaves (all rich nutrients) to fertilize the soil. Nothing is wasted. Our natural garden is a good example of sustainability. As a bonus, diversified gardening attracts very few harmful insects and those that do come are quickly repelled by the beneficial insects that are attracted to out flowers. Gardening in this manner keeps ever before our eyes the wonders of God's creation; the good relationships and cooperation between the plants and animal life; the diverse dying and rising within a vegetable garden, and the beauty of the plants, flowers and trees.
We engage in diversified gardening as a model of sound, natural gardening , planting a variety of crops, rotating them regularly, and using the silent plants, weeds, grass and leaves (all rich nutrients) to fertilize the soil. Nothing is wasted. Our natural garden is a good example of sustainability. As a bonus, diversified gardening attracts very few harmful insects and those that do come are quickly repelled by the beneficial insects that are attracted to out flowers. Gardening in this manner keeps ever before our eyes the wonders of God's creation; the good relationships and cooperation between the plants and animal life; the diverse dying and rising within a vegetable garden, and the beauty of the plants, flowers and trees.
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