The hard months at the start of the year can blunt our hopes. Our new year's resolutions are challenged by the icy ground, the darkness in the morning, and the fading light early in the afternoon. The days seem too short to sustain the hopes we had over the holidays.
Resilience is having the capacity to survive periods of difficulty. Survival requires hope. To sustain hope, we need a purpose to carry us forward. This is the time of year to pull out our saved seed and our plan of the beds and visualise our garden in full bloom. As we go through our packets of seeds and inventory them, we can remember what grew well and flourished. We can look at the layout of our beds and think about our garden in the year ahead in full colour. We can consider interplanting to attract beneficial predators, and how to feed pollinator birds and butterflies and bees.
As we look at our saved seeds, we live in light and fruit and life.
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