Even during the dormant winter months, plants are alive. By February, the garden can begin looking tatty. Wild onions stick up, green against the dead grass. Weeds thrive while everything else seems to sleep. The pine trees have continued to drop their needles. This is the garden's chance to sit on the couch in its worst tee shirt with its feet up in socks, eating a snack and drinking a beer after a long week of work. Fallow time is important. It gives the soil a chance to regenerate and earthworms time to do their magic.
We all need time for regeneration.
Making the time to be still allows us to be productive when we need to be. It means taking time to sit in the garden and not just work in it. To look across the space and simply enjoy it. To make time to meditate and clear the mind of all those busy thoughts. Rest gives us the foundation we need for when the year begins to warm and the garden calls us to new growth.
Today, let fallow beds lie.
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