"Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce."

Jeremiah 29:5

I've wanted a garden for years. Growing your own food and coming in with a handful of it sounds amazing. I get so excited about Reed experience watching food grow.

But it all started with a compost bin. I hate throwing things away that could be used for another purpose. We don't have a convenient recycling program out here. We have to collect it all and drive it to a collection center. And even then they don't take everything. So we drive the rest to DFW to our parents' houses and utilize their recycling bins. Crazy, yes. But I'm a little bit hippie when it comes to the environment. Hence the cloth diapers.

So being able to compost a lot of our own food waste and paper waste was really appealing. And then I could use it in a garden!

Last summer while my dad was in town, we decided to get the garden bed built. It's just a simple box with posts sunk in the ground at each corner.

 

 

I've read and really enjoyed The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson. It is a powerful book that can completely change your prayer life. So I thought it'd be good to circle our garden in prayer and scripture. So I wrote prayers inside the beams and chose specific verses to write inside as well. I wrote the references on the top so I can always see them.

 

Jeremiah 29:5 - Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Genesis 2:15 - The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

John 15:5 - I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

James 5:7 - Be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains.

Psalm 126:6 - He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.

 

And then life happened and it sat there...

 

 

So this spring we cleaned it out, with Reed's help of course, and got it ready for action.

We have squash! And a dirty hand!

Reed watering the garden

 

 

It's so exciting to see things growing from seeds and to find little tomatoes on the plants.

Check out the garden now!

Our first harvest!!

Enjoy!

The Turners