Our vegatable garden
Almost nine years ago, Berthine and I bought a small farm with 2,000 square meters of land around it. We try to grow our food there in an environmentally friendly way. We want to live as much as possible from the produce of our own land. We only go to the supermarket for grains, dairy, chips and cookies.
We were very inspired by a documentary in which an American searches for a gardening method that fits the original design of creation: so-called back-to-Eden gardening. This is a regenerative organic method that doesn't use tillage. Instead, you cover the soil with organic matter like compost and wood chips. It saves water and stimulates soil life. As a result, we have a lot of worms, hyphae, and mushrooms in the garden, which provide food for the plants and loosen the soil.
Our idea is that God created a good ecosystem in the beginning, and that we should try to maintain that. Several farmers have received the same revelation from God about agriculture: to stop plowing and cover the soil. Nature does the same thing in the fall. Nature is constantly teaching us how to do things right.
In our society, we've lost faith in God, and in His design, and think we have to "improve" nature with genetic engineering. But the design is already perfect; we just need to restore it to its original state.
