Harvesting Gold - Potatoes

We experience God's provisioning through the land. Our first journey into land ownership was less than a half acre in the suburbs, but we built raised bed planters and were determined to grow at least some of our own food. Our search had been for 5 acres or more. We settled for a McMansion in the burbs and regretted it; however, our first gardening efforts were tremendously educational. The garden flourished and provided food with more nutritional value than we expected. Quality food like we were growing did not live on grocery store shelves. It lived on the land.

We learned about tomatoes, eggplants, squash, kale, lettuce, fruit trees, and ornamentals. Learning how increased the desire to do, and within a year, we were back searching for more land. Our next jump to 10 acres gave us all the room we needed to begin providing almost all of our food needs. We put in the work and the bounty flowed in, while we remodeled the house. And the value of the land doubled.

Now we have 50 acres and are still open to what might come our way tomorrow. Our greatest joys in daily life come from the land. Jobs came and went with the whims of fickle economies, but the land provided bounty reliably. This video reveals how many potatoes the land has produced this year. Throughout the video, you hear me making excuses for what seemed like a poor harvest, but when all the potatoes were in, we were overjoyed to discover we had more than enough. These experiences are not unique to our lives and can be experienced by anyone willing to return to the land.