I've been on a long journey with this whole subject that started more out of conversations about nutrition and diet than it did out of anything having to do with getting my hands dirty. Through those conversations, I was beginning to be amazed at how much better nature is at giving us what we need than we are. The first steps were small steps in my diet, where I would eat more veggies and fruit, but it started to build to bigger things, and started to broaden my eyes to the world of agriculture and gardening.
Beyond that, I've been growing an interest in community development for places that suffer from treatable diseases, malnutrition, impure water, etc. As I dove into these subjects I realized I (as a Californian, suburban dwelling 21 year old) have no idea how to help those people, especially when it comes to agricultural solutions. So that sparked even greater interest on a practical level.
But none of those things brought me to a place of action. It was while reading "The Road to Peace" by Henri Nouwen, that I became fascinated by "Life". His description of Life as opposed to death was incredibly powerful for me when he started to use plant and human life as an example, and not just spiritual jargon to define life. I began to realize that there was a huge part of life that I had never really been exposed to. And I had little understanding on what true life was in the kingdom of God because I had only been surrounded by man made (dead) things, which I had learned to praise, and look up to as what life was.
There is so much I would love do dive into in this post, but I'll let it spill out as this blog goes on. The most recent book that has launched me into action was Guerrilla Gardening, which is about gardening in places without permission. I hope to catalog my adventures with that on here as well.
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