by David The Good
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Why work hard to make compost? Nature makes it all the time!
We are about three weeks from our last average frost date, so gardening is picking up fast. It’s time to plant carrots and beets, time to weed the grocery row gardens, and time to get grafting!
So, that said, I’m headed to the garden.
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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8 responses to “I Robbed Mother Nature”
Loved the Mother Nature video! I have Mulberries leafing and what looks like berries. Maybe this year I will see fruit. Got none last year.
I love the silliness!
Masterpiece. I like the screen. Gloves like that are a good idea. I contacted apparently a poison ivy root when I was harvesting the mother nature compost. I also wore those type of gloves but my arm must have brushed against. We also just added a shovel just like that. That was a fun video. Cheers!
I really enjoy the videos with the comedic view point. We have forest next door and the kids are gonna bring the wagon and do a bit of collecting. I’m starting to read about JADAM gardening techniques. Cheap nutritious food on our own land is the goal. So now I read a lot about gardening. Actually all this research and extra homework is David’s fault. He drew me in with his videos and insightful books. Now i may actually do a speaking engagement about soil mineralization and cheap organic method gardening. I even have the kids watching David’s YouTube videos. It’s so bad the wife and kids are planting inoculated peas in the whole garden. I know if nothing else. It’s all biomass and chicken feed. I even have myself and the boys peeing in jars now. I think i need help
I know it was meant to be fun – but Mother Nature is a pagan goddess (Gaia, Pachamama, she has had and has until today many names). I try to tell people about this, whenever I hear Christians wording ‘mother nature’. They take that on from non-believers without thinking.
All the beauty and the plenty and the goodness come from our creator, God.
Yes, I am familiar with it. I am with Chesterton on this one:
““The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.””
Thank you, David. It’s good to know that you are aware of this.
I am not with Chesterton (this was NOT the main point of Christianity, I believe), but I am aware that there are many aspects in faith where Christians may differ, but still both be followers of Christ and justified by his blood.
I will keep on telling Christians that there is no Mother Nature, just “nature” (creation). Most of them never thought about it. I think we do not praise God enough for the beautiful and abundant nature he made.
Romans 1, 20
Thank you for your inspiring work, David!
No, he is making a broader argument – it’s not the full context. The “main” main point of Christianity wasn’t against Mother Nature, but he’s covering a larger theological issue where I took the quote from. I think you’d agree with the entire point.
People often worship creation rather than the Creator, most likely because they do not wish to be under judgement and would rather do as they wish.