The first of the year comes about a fortnight after midwinter. The time from the Winter Solstice till New Year is a good time for reflection and planning, and discussing the garden with your closest partners.
Ask yourself, what worked in the previous year? What are you eating in your kitchen and what can you do with more of? What seed do I have saved? Which plants should be skipped for a year to starve the pests that eat them?
The practice of thinking ahead about what we will sow is equally valid in our day-to-day lives. Habits can take a season to change. Paying off debt is like developing soil tilth: it must be practiced steadily, consistently, until one day the earthworms are happy and plentiful, and the debt burden is gone. Choosing to save seed from the most productive plants in your garden will, over time, yield well-adapted plants with good harvests.
So, it's a new year, day one. Don't rush, but plan for a productive garden.
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