Dirt under my fingernails and a song in my heart-Coaxing nature to feed my family and the community

O Lord my God,

When I in awesome wonder Consider all The works Thy Hand hath made,

Then sings my soul,

My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art!

How great Thou art!

Lyrics ~ Carl Boberg, 1859 - 1940

English Translation ~ Stuart K. Hine, 1899 -


This song often erupts from deep within me when I experience the majestic wonder if God's creation. We started our garden in March, 2011 with Great Hope and Expectation! You are invited to follow along on our journey and learn along with us as we live and learn.

While developing our garden we are working through an Amanda Benett unit study "Gardening" and I will be posting assignments from that study as an example for my children.



Sunday, May 8, 2011

What does it mean?


cul·ti·vate

  
[kuhl-tuh-veyt] 
–verb (used with object), -vat·ed, -vat·ing.
1.
to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
2.
to use a cultivator  on.
3.
to promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) bylabor and attention.


bot·a·ny

  [bot-n-ee] 
–noun, plural -nies.
1.
the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals withplant life.
2.
the plant life of a region: the botany of alaska.
3.
the biology of a plant or plant group: the botany ofdeciduous trees.


plant

  [plant, plahnt] 
–noun
1.
any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellularorganisms that typically produce their own food frominorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and thathave more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose,including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts:some classification schemes may include fungi, algae,bacteriablue-green algae, and certain single-celledeukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls orphotosynthesis.
2.
an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with atree or a shrub.
3.
a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
–verb (used with object)
12.
to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, youngtrees, etc.
13.
to furnish or stock (land) with plants: to plant a section withcorn.
14.
to establish or implant  (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.): toplant a love for learning in growing children.


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