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Beans did great this year, we ate loads, froze some and they just kept coming.

Peas are done, we let some dry for seeds and tore out the plants and supports.

The last two surviving sweetcorn cobs were the largest and so got plucked and peeled to dry for seeds.

Also got seeds from the two tobacco plants that popped up randomly after we dug over the former greenhouse for the first time. Nobody here smokes, but I'm kinda curious to experiment with them.

Cucumbers are done too.

Even managed to save a few hazelnuts from the mad squirrels this year.

Just pumpkins, sunflowers and apples left now. And the apples are pretty sour still. Not enough sun. Endless rain.

#Homestead #Harvest #Garden #Beans #Peas #Sweetcorn #Tobacco #Pumpkin #Cucumber #Hazelnuts #SeedSaving

https://www.wacoca.com/pets/527305/ Reuben the Bulldog: It’s Time! #BritishBulldog #Bulldog #bulldogs #CutePets #dog #dogs #EnglishBulldog #fruit #FunnyPet's #GardenWatermelon #harvest #Inu #ReubenTheBulldog #ブルドッグ

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https://www.wacoca.com/pets/527305/ Reuben the Bulldog: It’s Time! #BritishBulldog #Bulldog #bulldogs #CutePets #dog #dogs #EnglishBulldog #fruit #FunnyPet's #GardenWatermelon #harvest #Inu #ReubenTheBulldog #ブルドッグ

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/117208764538021759

Stretch, Harvest, Tractor, and Alpha were names to conjure with for more than twenty years.

A stellar cast led the development of the products behind these names, including Turing Award winners John Cooke, Fred Brooks, and Fran Allen.

This excellent IEESpectrum history by Peter Capek is based on many sources, including his personal experiences as an IBM computer engineer.

#computer #history #Stretch #Harvest #IBM #NSA #cryptanalysis

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
Beard upon golden beard
The last barley load
Swayed through the yard…

—George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-the-runes/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
Beard upon golden beard
The last barley load
Swayed through the yard…

—George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-the-runes/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
Beard upon golden beard
The last barley load
Swayed through the yard…

—George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-the-runes/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
Beard upon golden beard
The last barley load
Swayed through the yard…

—George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-the-runes/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

It’s not too late to plant for the fall harvest https://www.allforgardening.com/1938012/its-not-too-late-to-plant-for-the-fall-harvest/ #advice #column #connecticut #ConnecticutNews #ct #fall #farming #food #garden #gardening #GardeningConnecticut #HartfordCourant #harvest #opinion #planting

It’s not too late to plant for the fall harvest https://www.allforgardening.com/1938012/its-not-too-late-to-plant-for-the-fall-harvest/ #advice #column #connecticut #ConnecticutNews #ct #fall #farming #food #garden #gardening #GardeningConnecticut #HartfordCourant #harvest #opinion #planting

night snack

#harvest #tomatoes #gardening

Ms. McDonald's Tomatoes

••⋅☾ #川柳 ☽⋅••

Ms. McDonald
No longer grew beef
Her tomatoes though...

••⋅☾ #Senryu ☽⋅••

#俳文 #Haibun The doll is as found, i.e., not posed. The tomatoes are windfalls from roadside planters. (Obviously posed) The background is touched-up road concrete paving.

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #InkMine #Orange #Fall #Harvest #Tomatoes #Squash #Garden #Autumn #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #UrbanPhotography #都市写真 #StreetPhotography #ストリートスナ

After a long dry spell, rain is forecast for the next three days.

The last few days we have had the sound of combine harvesters in the distance. First on one side of our house then on the others.

Wheat in the fields is ready to #harvest and the local #farmers have working all hours to get the wheat harvested and deposited at the local Felleskjøpet silo before the rain comes.

The fields near our house are now all stubble dotted with straw bale "traktoregg".

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundballe

#Norge

Picked 2 Lillie Mae white #cucumbers.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #harvest

​🌾🏡 Friends, this is what my days look like right now! Spending a few days back at my parents’ village home helping out in the garden.
​Digging potatoes and harvesting fresh veggies to get ready for winter 🥔🍅
​In a few days, I’ll be back in the city, returning to my work and art space. Balancing rural roots with creativity! ✨🎨
​Nothing beats home-grown crops! 🧺
​#CountryLife #Gardening #Harvest #Handmade #ArtLife #Ukraine #MastodonArt

fresh peaches

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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Harvested a bunch of older Thai lemon mint & Vietnamese coriander from our repurposed bathtub planter. Allowing new growths to come up & fill the bathtub planter again.
I never grow these in ground - only in controlled containers.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowHerbs #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #Plants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #harvest #CulturalCrops #AsianMastodon #ZeroWaste #SolarPunk

I did two harvests today. A snack pack of peas & cherry tomatoes - ate that while working in the gardens. Picked more homegrown foods for family to share.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #harvest

First mini rainbow #carrots #harvest from one pot. I'll be planting beans & beets in same pot, next.

#carrots #harvest #iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

Today's backyard food harvest.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #harvest

Viral gardening grandad sets out to inspire the young https://www.allforgardening.com/1911724/viral-gardening-grandad-sets-out-to-inspire-the-young/ #garden #gardening #GeraldStratford #harvest #OnlineCommunities #SocialMedia #stratford

Why did I plant 7 of these? Oh boy.

#harvest #gardening #grow #growyourown #growyourownfood #growbag #tomato #tomatoes #homegrown #HomegrownFood

I picked some salad greens from our front & back gardens 👩‍🌾💚

#FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #Food #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #SaladGreens #lettuce #arugula #chard #sorrel #spinach #radicchio #kale #harvest

https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-r-19341240/

'Genevieve R.
...
'Governance | #NZ #Coastal Policy enthusiast | Writer | Public #Health advocate | Sepsis Survivor | ADHD Advocate | Busy unique mind | Proudly #WOKE| All Strong Views my own (proudly)'

#Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

'When I first became involved in advocating for eastern #tarakihi in 2019, #Fisheries New Zealand’s own #science estimated the eastern stock had fallen to around 16% of its unfished #biomass—well below the 20% soft limit and nowhere near the #Harvest Strategy Standard target of 40%.

'Six years later, we’re paying substantially more at the checkout, yet the eastern stock remains well under a rebuilding-plan target.
'Recent projections suggest it is still hovering around the lower management thresholds, with recovery far from assured under current catch settings.
'That should concern every New Zealander.
We’ve somehow normalised the idea that a fish can become increasingly expensive while remaining chronically depleted. Consumers are paying more, commercial operators continue #fishing, and we’re repeatedly told the #fishery is being managed “#sustainably”.

'If this is what #sustainability looks like, perhaps we need to rethink what the word means.

'A truly #sustainable fishery shouldn’t require decades of rebuilding while the stock remains well below the level our own management system says it should achieve. It shouldn’t leave us debating whether 10–20% of the original spawning biomass is acceptable, and it most certainly shouldn’t have us celebrating modest improvements while remaining nowhere near the target.'
.....
'Perhaps the real question isn’t why the price has risen, it’s whether we’ve convinced ourselves that #depletion has become an acceptable definition of sustainability.
#fisheries #rma #cma #rcep #fisheriesact #protect #enhance #restore

From the ‘Meaningful Activities’ series for parents: Where does bread actually come from?

#Farmers #Cereals #Grain #Harvest #Summer #Parenting #Children #Parents #Activities #Tips #Knowledge #Photography #Photojournalism #FarmLife #StreetPhotography #Switzerland #shotoniphone #Landwirte #Bauer #Getreide #Korn #Ernte #Sommer #Erziehung #Kinder #Eltern #Aktivitäten #Tipps #Wissen #Fotografie #Fotojournalismus #Schweiz

From the ‘Meaningful Activities’ series for parents: Where does bread actually come from?

#Farmers #Cereals #Grain #Harvest #Summer #Parenting #Children #Parents #Activities #Tips #Knowledge #Photography #Photojournalism #FarmLife #StreetPhotography #Switzerland #shotoniphone #Landwirte #Bauer #Getreide #Korn #Ernte #Sommer #Erziehung #Kinder #Eltern #Aktivitäten #Tipps #Wissen #Fotografie #Fotojournalismus #Schweiz

From the ‘Meaningful Activities’ series for parents: Where does bread actually come from?

#Farmers #Cereals #Grain #Harvest #Summer #Parenting #Children #Parents #Activities #Tips #Knowledge #Photography #Photojournalism #FarmLife #StreetPhotography #Switzerland #shotoniphone #Landwirte #Bauer #Getreide #Korn #Ernte #Sommer #Erziehung #Kinder #Eltern #Aktivitäten #Tipps #Wissen #Fotografie #Fotojournalismus #Schweiz

I picked some yummy #marionberries this morning 👩‍🌾😊 They're a hybrid, trailing blackberry cultivar. They taste like a mix of blackberry & raspberry.

#MarionBerry #Summer #berries #homegrown #fruit #harvest #food #GrowItEatIt #FoodSecurity #SimpleGoodness #BerryGood

One of the most #SolarPunk events to happen in Southern #Maine! This Saturday!!!

#BrunswickME - 2nd Annual #DIYFestival

Saturday, June 13, 2026
10:00am - 1:00pm

#CurtisMemorialLibrary
23 Pleasant Street
Brunswick, ME 04011

"Roll up your sleeves and bring your curiosity— our 2nd annual #DIY Festival is packed with #inspiration, #creativity, and #PracticalSkills! From #repairing the things you love to #preserving the #harvest, we're bringing together #makers, #growers, and #doers of all kinds to celebrate #SelfReliance, #community, and #craft. Whether you’re a seasoned maker or just starting out, there’s something here for everyone.

DEMONSTRATIONS BY:

#UMaineCooperativeExtension (Strawberry Jam #canning preservation) | #MerrymeetingBayTrout Unlimited (#Flyfishing and #FlyTying) | #ArtVan (#ButtonMaking & #Crafts) | #RepairCafe | Design Your Own #Puzzle in the Children's Library | #BlockPrinting & more!

LECTURE SERIES in the MORRELL MEETING ROOM:

10:00 - Explore #NativeGardens with members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church's Earth Care Team

10:45 - Join the #MARIAProject from #BigelowLaboratory for #OceanSciences to learn what you can do with #MaineAlgae

11:30 - Enjoy a performance from Curtis' own Friday morning #Ukulele Friends

Noon - Try out a free #Pilates lesson with Routine. Bring your own mat if you can. 20 person limit.

Source:
https://curtislibrary.libcal.com/event/16450234

#SolarPunkSunday #LibariesRule #MaineLibraries #MaineEvents #RepairCafesMaine #PuzzleDesign #FoodPreservation #BuildingCommunity #Gardening #SelfCare

every now and then,

every now and then, 
we go back to the year of 
the shiso that grew 

taller than mama, grateful 
to have enough for everyone
.
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My favorite part of summer as a child was going to the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall with my Grandmother and her family. 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairs #grangers #encampment #camping #glamping #campout #tent #tenting #tents #rides #amusements #pretzels #candy #cottencandy #gamesofchance #stands #fairgrounds #centrehall #centrecounty #endofsummer #harvest #harvesthome #harvesttime #family

My favorite part of summer as a child was going to the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall with my Grandmother and her family. 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairs #grangers #encampment #camping #glamping #campout #tent #tenting #tents #rides #amusements #pretzels #candy #cottencandy #gamesofchance #stands #fairgrounds #centrehall #centrecounty #endofsummer #harvest #harvesthome #harvesttime #family

My favorite part of summer as a child was going to the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall with my Grandmother and her family. 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairs #grangers #encampment #camping #glamping #campout #tent #tenting #tents #rides #amusements #pretzels #candy #cottencandy #gamesofchance #stands #fairgrounds #centrehall #centrecounty #endofsummer #harvest #harvesthome #harvesttime #family

My favorite part of summer as a child was going to the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall with my Grandmother and her family. 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairs #grangers #encampment #camping #glamping #campout #tent #tenting #tents #rides #amusements #pretzels #candy #cottencandy #gamesofchance #stands #fairgrounds #centrehall #centrecounty #endofsummer #harvest #harvesthome #harvesttime #family

My favorite part of summer as a child was going to the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall with my Grandmother and her family. 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairs #grangers #encampment #camping #glamping #campout #tent #tenting #tents #rides #amusements #pretzels #candy #cottencandy #gamesofchance #stands #fairgrounds #centrehall #centrecounty #endofsummer #harvest #harvesthome #harvesttime #family

Massive Okra Harvest – किसान की मेहनत 🌱 #shorts https://www.allforgardening.com/1700493/massive-okra-harvest-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%b9%e0%a4%a8%e0%a4%a4-%f0%9f%8c%b1-shorts/ #agriculture #farmer #farming #gardening #GardeningTrends #harvest #kheti #krishan #Okra #OrganicFarming #reels #shorts #trending #Vegetable #VillageLife #ViralVideo #YTSHORTS

Called by Name in the Garden

An Easter Homily

(Note: Sermons can be heard in audio format at https://millersburgmennonite.org/worship/sermon-audio/)

John 20:1–18

Introduction:

Easter morning begins in a garden.

That is not accidental. John is never careless with his details. He wants us to notice where we are. We are in a garden, on the first day of the week, at the dawning of something no one yet understands. And if we listen closely, we can hear old echoes stirring beneath the new story. We remember another garden. We remember another beginning. We remember the breath of God moving over creation. We remember humanity formed from the earth and called into life.

And now here, in another garden, at the edge of another beginning, Mary Magdalene stands weeping before a tomb.

This is Easter, according to John. Not brass and banners at first. Not certainty. Not a choir already at full voice. But a grieving woman in a garden, searching for the body of the one she loves.

And yet it is here, precisely this place, that the new creation begins.

John wants us to see that Easter is not simply a happy ending after a tragic Friday. Easter is the beginning of God making all things new. The resurrection of Jesus is not merely proof that life continues after death. It is the opening act of a renewed creation. The old world of violence, burial, empire, grief, and endings has not disappeared overnight. Mary still cries. The tomb is still real. The wounds in Jesus’ body have not been erased.

But something new has broken into the world. The Creator has begun again.

That is why the garden matters.

Let us pray,
May the Words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen

Homily:

In Genesis, life begins in a garden. In John, new life begins in a garden. In Genesis, humanity loses its way among trees, shame, and fear. In John, a human being stands again among trees, tears, and confusion, and there encounters the living Christ. In Genesis, the ground is cursed by death. In John, the earth itself becomes the place from which resurrection life is announced.

And there is one detail so strange and so beautiful that it almost slips past us: Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener.

She is wrong, and yet somehow, she is not wrong at all.

For if this is new creation, then who would Jesus be but the gardener of God’s renewed world? Who would he be but the one tending life where death had seemed to reign? Who would he be but the one bringing forth new growth from the scarred soil of human history?

I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

Jesús es el jardinero del mundo.
The risen Christ is not less than the crucified one. He is the crucified one transformed, alive, and at work in the garden of the world. He is still bearing wounds, but now those wounds belong to a life death cannot master. He is the gardener of a new humanity, the keeper of a new creation, the tender of all that empire tried to uproot and bury.

And this matters because many of us still live as though the world is only a graveyard.

Many of us know what it is to stand among the remnants of what was, among memories, among losses, among plans that did not come to pass, among dreams buried too early. Many of us know what it is to look at the world and see only tombs: tombs of justice deferred, tombs of broken trust, tombs of worn-out institutions, tombs of relationships, tombs of hope. We know what it is to come to church carrying not celebration but sorrow.

Easter does not shame us for that.
Instead, Easter meets us in the garden and says: this is where God begins again.

Not somewhere else. Not after you become more cheerful. Not after all the evidence is in. Not after every grief has been resolved. Right here.

In the place where you came expecting only loss. In the place where you thought the best you could do was tend the dead. In the place where your tears are still warm on your face.

Aquí mismo, Dios ya está obrando para hacer nuevas todas las cosas. Right here, God is already at work making all things new.

But John does not stop with new creation. He also gives us one of the most personal moments in all of scripture.

Mary sees Jesus and does not know him.

She sees the angels and still does not understand. She sees Jesus himself and assumes he is the gardener. And perhaps that should comfort us. Because we often imagine that if only God would do something dramatic enough, obvious enough, dazzling enough, then we would finally believe without hesitation. But in this story, resurrection itself stands before Mary, and she still does not know.

Why?

Because resurrection, in John, is not simply something to be observed. La resurrección es alguien a quien encontrar. It is someone to be encountered.
Mary does not truly recognize Jesus until he speaks her name.

“Mary.”

That is the turning point of the whole passage. Not the empty tomb by itself. Not the folded grave clothes. Not even the sight of Jesus standing there. The turning point is that the risen Christ calls her by name.

And with one word, the whole world changes.

Mary is no longer simply a mourner at a grave. She is not simply a witness to an event. She is addressed. Known. Reached. Called into relationship again.

My friends, this is good news! The resurrection of Jesus is not only a doctrine to defend. It is not only an argument that death has been defeated, though it is surely that. It is also this: Cristo resucitado aún conoce nuestros nombres. The risen Christ knows us by name.

The one whom death could not hold is not distant, abstract, or vague. He is not merely the subject of our hymns and creeds. He is the living one who calls people personally, intimately, tenderly. He comes not only to humanity in general but to each beloved child of God in particular.

Jesus knows your name beneath all the names the world has placed on you. Beneath your titles, your failures, your roles, your pain, your reputation, your confusion, your grief. Beneath all the labels—ALL the labels —successful, unsuccessful, strong, weak, faithful, doubtful, useful, forgotten—Christ knows your true name.

And perhaps that is why the church gathers on Easter: because we need once more to hear ourselves called by the voice we know, the voice of the Good Shepherd, the voice that speaks not condemnation but life.

“Mary.”

And if you listen, perhaps you can hear your own name there too.

Yet even here, the story turns again in a surprising way. Just when Mary recognizes Jesus, just when she reaches toward him, just when she wants to hold onto what has been restored, Jesus says, “Do not hold on to me.”

It is one of the strangest lines in the resurrection stories. It sounds almost harsh at first. But it is not rejection.

Es una invitación a una relación transformada.
It is invitation into a changed relationship.

Mary wants, understandably, to keep Jesus as she knew him before. To stay in that moment. To cling to who or what has been found again. Who among us would not? When something lost is restored, when someone beloved is returned, our instinct is to hold tight. To keep it from slipping away. To preserve the moment before it changes again.

But resurrection is not a return to the old arrangement.

Jesus is alive, but not simply back. He is risen into a new reality, and his followers cannot relate to him as though nothing has changed. The relationship will continue, but it will be transformed. It will become a relationship carried not by physical nearness alone, but by trust, by Spirit, by witness, and by mission.

How often do we try to hold on to Jesus in ways that keep us from following the living Christ into newness? We cling to old forms, old certainties, old pictures of how God must act. We cling to past revelations, moments we cannot reproduce, seasons we cannot recover, churches as they used to be, lives as they once were, versions of ourselves that no longer fit the call before us in this present moment. We want resurrection to mean restoration of the familiar.

But sometimes Easter means letting go.

Sometimes the risen Christ says: do not cling to what you think I must be. Do not imprison me in yesterday’s forms. Do not reduce resurrection to nostalgia. I am alive, and because I am alive, Te estoy llevando a un lugar nuevo. I am leading you somewhere new.

That can be unsettling. But it is also liberating. Because faith is not about grasping a frozen sacred past. Faith is trusting the living Christ who is still moving today, still calling today, still sending today, still making all things new today.

And that leads us to the final wonder of this passage: the grieving one becomes the messenger.

Jesus says to Mary, “Go to my brothers and say to them…”

He sends her.

This too is astonishing. The first witness of the resurrection in John’s Gospel is not Peter. Not the beloved disciple. Not the most publicly powerful person. Not the one least marked by grief. It is Mary Magdalene, who came looking for the dead and found herself entrusted with the news of life.

The one who came weeping becomes the one who announces hope.

The one who came to tend a broken body becomes the one who bears a message of healing and hope.

The one who had been standing outside the tomb crying is now the first to say, “I have seen the Lord.”

And there is gospel in that for the church.

Because too often we imagine that the good news is entrusted only to the polished, the confident, the credentialed, the unshaken. But here the risen Christ places the message first into the mouth of one who has just been weeping. The first Easter preacher is one whose voice is still raw from grief.

So take heart, church. You do not need to have mastered every sorrow before you can bear witness. You do not need to have solved every mystery before you can testify. You do not need to stand above the world’s pain in order to speak hope into it.

Sometimes the most faithful witness is the one who doesn’t say, “I understand everything,” but simply,
“He visto al Señor.” “I have seen the Lord.”

That is enough.

That is the task of Easter People.

To live as those who have glimpsed new creation in the midst of the old world. To listen for the voice that calls us by name. To loosen our grip on what must pass, so that we may follow the living Christ into what is being born.

And to bear witness, even through tears, that death does not get the final word.

So today, in this garden of resurrection, hear the good news:
Christ is alive.
The gardener is at work.
Creation is beginning again.
Your name is known.
Your grief is not disqualifying.
Your clinging can become trust.
And your trembling voice may yet become the voice that tells the world,
“I have seen the Lord.”

More #strawberry flowers are out & a #mustard plant, growing out of my rock garden area 💚😀

#FoodSecurity #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #harvest #GrowFoodNotLawns #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #GrowItEatIt #Homegrown #food #plants #EdiblePlants

Today’s #Harvest:
 🌱dill and fennel fronds
 For a new recipe: Dill and Fennel Cream Sauce (coming in next Monday’s Substack! https://open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswithcamera

There were no leftovers tonight 😋
#KitchenGarden
#zone8b #wintergarden #punkrockgardening
#guerillagardening

100 Caños EVOO: the early harvest hojiblanca that is among the best in Spain

Monday, 16 March 2026, 16:07 At the foot of the Sierra de San Jorge, very close to the Fuente de los Cien Caños, which provides much of the fl…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2558217/100-canos-evoo-the-early-harvest-hojiblanca-that-is-among-the-best-in-spain/

Great harvest pick of #GrannySmith #apples today. Granny Smith apples are currently one of the most expensive apples in local stores with average pricing of $2.99/lb. The apples we gleaned from one tree, were almost all perfect apples - very few with damage on them 🍏😃
These will be greatly appreciated by many food insecure folks around our community 👍💗

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

#FruitTreeProject
#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #fruit #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #FreeFruit #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #harvest #FoodSharing #Teamwork #FruitPickers

A farm near Martock on Trunk 14 in Nova Scotia had an impressive array of pumpkins & gourds on display and for sale on the front lawn yesterday. We bought two, and I _might_ have taken a few photos. #photography #pumpkins #gourds #autumn #fall #farm #novascotia #windsor #crop #harvest #EastCoastKin

Picked all the winter squash today. 41 acorn squash that weighed 52 lbs / 23.5 kg. 8 butternut squash 17 lbs / 7.7 kg. Not all the acorn are probably ripe enough but they'll used up first. They were all washed and sprayed with white vinegar and sitting somewhere warm for a couple of weeks before they go off to the cold place.

#gardening #squash #harvest #October11 #garden #WinterSquash #AcornSquash #ButternutSquash

Picked all the winter squash today. 41 acorn squash that weighed 52 lbs / 23.5 kg. 8 butternut squash 17 lbs / 7.7 kg. Not all the acorn are probably ripe enough but they'll used up first. They were all washed and sprayed with white vinegar and sitting somewhere warm for a couple of weeks before they go off to the cold place.

#gardening #squash #harvest #October11 #garden #WinterSquash #AcornSquash #ButternutSquash

Picked all the winter squash today. 41 acorn squash that weighed 52 lbs / 23.5 kg. 8 butternut squash 17 lbs / 7.7 kg. Not all the acorn are probably ripe enough but they'll used up first. They were all washed and sprayed with white vinegar and sitting somewhere warm for a couple of weeks before they go off to the cold place.

#gardening #squash #harvest #October11 #garden #WinterSquash #AcornSquash #ButternutSquash

Picked all the winter squash today. 41 acorn squash that weighed 52 lbs / 23.5 kg. 8 butternut squash 17 lbs / 7.7 kg. Not all the acorn are probably ripe enough but they'll used up first. They were all washed and sprayed with white vinegar and sitting somewhere warm for a couple of weeks before they go off to the cold place.

#gardening #squash #harvest #October11 #garden #WinterSquash #AcornSquash #ButternutSquash

Picked all the winter squash today. 41 acorn squash that weighed 52 lbs / 23.5 kg. 8 butternut squash 17 lbs / 7.7 kg. Not all the acorn are probably ripe enough but they'll used up first. They were all washed and sprayed with white vinegar and sitting somewhere warm for a couple of weeks before they go off to the cold place.

#gardening #squash #harvest #October11 #garden #WinterSquash #AcornSquash #ButternutSquash

Thomas Dolby, Blinded By Science, 1983 on Harvest.

An EP or “Mini LP” by Dolby with the 12″ single versions of songs from The Golden Age of Wireless. The version of “Airwaves” here (5:20) is the full length version as opposed to the 3:35 version that appeared on the US version of album.

My copy—via A1 Records in NYC—is a US pressing on Harvest / Venice in Peril records with manufactured by Capitol in the rim text and EMI Ltd phonographic copyright.

#1983 #A1Records #EMI #Harvest #NYC #ThomasDolby #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds