"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
- John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
RIGHT NOW, and then again tomorrow and then again the next day and on it goes day after day,
1/2 OF THE WORLD lives on LESS THAN 2 DOLLARS each day.
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Do all you can and don't worry about the odds against you. Wield the miracle of life's energy, never worrying whether we fail, concerned only that whether we fail or succeed we do so with all our might. That's all we need to know to feel certain that all our force of diligent effort is worth our while on Earth.
Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle
Our garden is late, partly due to the late date we had it planted and partly due to the weather...we have been eating lettuce for weeks now, we keep a huge bowl of freshly picked lettuce in our refrigerator at all times during the summer months. Today we hit the jack pot, our fully flowered cucumber plants and yellow beans have started our preserving season. I canned 2 quarts and 1 pint of yellow beans, and we cut up four huge cucumbers (apparently we missed these) and gave them to the chickens and ducks and the rest we ate a fresh salad for supper and have another on ice.
today's yellow beans
today's cucumbers
Tuki cutting some fresh cukes for supper
our forest of tomato plants that are full of flowers and green tomatoes, we have 7 rows and we left about a foot of space between but they are huge anyway.
One of our Russian sunflower plants
our doubly protected cabbage
another sunflower in the foreground of our lettuce, carrots, yellow beans and beets
our swamp of pumpkins, squash and gourds
one of the baby pumpkins
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