Well, it happened...we had the late (ish) March freeze once again. I lost some tomatoes and marigolds, and the potatoes bit back, but they'll be back. Everything else did fine (even the ladybugs). We even had a hummingbird moth out on some flowers this morning...I'm going to get batteries for the camera so (maybe) we can post some pictures on the blog.
I've been looking at quite a few Christian agrarian blogs/websites and am trying to synthesize the information. I have gardened organically for 20+ years and have always been interested in that "type" of living. We have friends who have done so before it became recently popular. We also visited conservative Mennonites in Wyoming (at least a dozen times) when we lived in the Denver area. We used (conservative) Mennonite curriculum in our homeschooling and purchased thirty or more children's books by their authors (By-the-way, I HIGHLY recommend their English curriculum as well as their novels). The plain people have lived the agrarian lifestyle for many, many years. The one family from their Body that lived in Cheyenne (rather than the country)was suspect (They were converts rather than old-school plain folks).
Interestingly, we were reading an Amish history book at the time (probably Our Better Country or its predecessor) and a couple we had "dinner" with mentioned that one of the people mentioned in the book was his direct ancestor...from 400 years ago. He had recently "converted" from Amish to Mennonite (due to legalism in his community). Very interesting people to talk with.
Of course, they really didn't think we were Christians since we didn't live like they did. Even their cousins from Canada were suspect (i.e., liberal) because of the size of their headcoverings (too small, if I remember correctly).
While we didn't join their Body, we found a lot to like about the way that they lived the Christian life.
In the same manner, I find a lot to like about the Christian agrarian movement and some to not like. Possibly I will post on this later.
I've been looking at quite a few Christian agrarian blogs/websites and am trying to synthesize the information. I have gardened organically for 20+ years and have always been interested in that "type" of living. We have friends who have done so before it became recently popular. We also visited conservative Mennonites in Wyoming (at least a dozen times) when we lived in the Denver area. We used (conservative) Mennonite curriculum in our homeschooling and purchased thirty or more children's books by their authors (By-the-way, I HIGHLY recommend their English curriculum as well as their novels). The plain people have lived the agrarian lifestyle for many, many years. The one family from their Body that lived in Cheyenne (rather than the country)was suspect (They were converts rather than old-school plain folks).
Interestingly, we were reading an Amish history book at the time (probably Our Better Country or its predecessor) and a couple we had "dinner" with mentioned that one of the people mentioned in the book was his direct ancestor...from 400 years ago. He had recently "converted" from Amish to Mennonite (due to legalism in his community). Very interesting people to talk with.
Of course, they really didn't think we were Christians since we didn't live like they did. Even their cousins from Canada were suspect (i.e., liberal) because of the size of their headcoverings (too small, if I remember correctly).
While we didn't join their Body, we found a lot to like about the way that they lived the Christian life.
In the same manner, I find a lot to like about the Christian agrarian movement and some to not like. Possibly I will post on this later.
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