{"id":3145,"date":"2015-11-17T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2020-03-10T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:07:21","slug":"back-to-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolbecenter.org\/back-to-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Introduction to Back to Eden Gardening<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The liturgical readings for the Easter season normally recall the experiences of the first Catholic communities, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.\u00a0 In the account of Cornelius the Centurion in Acts Chapter 10.\u00a0 St. Luke tells us that Cornelius was told by an angel to summon St. Peter to instruct him.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Lord prepared St. Peter for this encounter with a gentile through a vision, and the Holy Spirit confirmed that St. Peter should go to see him.\u00a0 When St. Peter preached to Cornelius and his household, St. Luke relates that the Holy Spirit descended on them in the same way that He had descended on the Apostles at Pentecost and that they began to praise God. This was a sign to St. Peter that he should baptize them and receive them into the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as has been true throughout the Christian era, there are many souls outside of the Catholic Church who are sincerely seeking the Lord.\u00a0 Many who receive the Word of God as what it truly is\u2014the Divine Word\u2014are blessed with great insights, only awaiting the visit of some ambassador of St. Peter to enter into the fullness of grace in the Catholic Church.\u00a0 A Cornelius figure who has heard the Word of God and believed but who as far as I can tell has not yet met St. Peter\u2019s ambassador is Paul Gautschi.\u00a0 Paul is a master gardener and arborist who has learned his greatest gardening lessons by meditating and praying on the Holy Scriptures.\u00a0 I strongly encourage all the visitors to this website to watch the \u201cBack to Eden\u201d documentary at this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtoedenfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.backtoedenfilm.com\/<\/a> and to ponder Paul\u2019s testimony. Perhaps some of you will even experiment with Paul\u2019s \u201cBack to Eden\u201d method of gardening as the members of the Le Grelle Family have done on their land near Auckland, New Zealand!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Grow a Vegetable Garden - Back To Eden Organic Gardening Film\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rPPUmStKQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the points the film drives home is that children need a connection to God\u2019s creation to be happy and healthy.\u00a0 If possible, every family with children at home should have a garden and farm animals.\u00a0 I am convinced that Darwinian evolution could never have gained traction until a significant part of the populace\u2014especially the educated elite\u2014had been cut off from the land and from their oral traditions.\u00a0 Christian civilization thrived where these two things co-existed within the context of the Catholic Faith.\u00a0 But men who are cut off from the wonders of God\u2019s creative handiwork in living plants and animals by city living, and from their own ancestral history through total dependence on written or electronically encoded information\u2014such men can be led to believe all kinds of things that contradict the common testimony of their ancestors and the principles of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>On this page Annie and Marian Le Grelle and other members of the Le Grelle Family will record their experiences with Back to Eden gardening in words and photographs for the benefit of visitors to our website.\u00a0 If you are interested in contacting them about starting or maintaining your own Back to Eden Garden, you can contact them through this website or by emailing me at <a href=\"mailto:howen@shentel.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">howen@shentel.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hugh Owen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mt. Jackson Virginia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>Our Back to Eden Garden<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie and Marian le Grelle - 31 March, 2016<\/p>\n<p>It is late summer, early autumn, in New Zealand. We've enjoyed sharing the Back to Eden story with everyone who will listen and have had some success with giving food away. It is always gratifying to hand somebody a squash or beans which have been grown on blessed land. There has been a drought here unfortunately which is why it is so amazing that our garden grew at all given the minimal care it receives of a visit for tending about once a fortnight. We still managed to harvest juicy corn and potatoes. The pumpkins and squash grew anyway because the chips kept out the weeds and retained moisture. The big lesson this year was: plant early because only the early planted crops grew well. The rows we tried to plant in succession to allow a staggered harvest simply didn't grow well. As soon as it is safe to plant to trees we will be planting cherry trees which like our climate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie and Marian le Grelle November 2015<\/p>\n<p>Our Back to Eden Garden is just beginning with a single strip of garden which has blackberries, raspberries, and one bed of broccoli.\u00a0 We missed the time to plant the fruit trees so we will wait for next year for that.\u00a0 In the meantime, we will plant corn, squash, and beans which are called the three sisters and other plants.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3153 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png?resize=903%2C674\" alt=\"clip_image002\" width=\"903\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png?w=903&amp;ssl=1 903w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png?resize=600%2C448&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image002.png?resize=768%2C573&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The progress we have made so far is having a large rectangle of land with a line of pine trees through the middle fenced off.\u00a0 We've found a free source of wood chip from a local tree service and are waiting for our second load to be delivered to our house in town.\u00a0 The strip in the middle is our first line of newspaper, soil, and wood chip.\u00a0 The local city newspaper donated newspaper to us as we are a school.\u00a0 After the wood chip is dumped in our driveway in town, we load it into our trailer and dump it in a line right next to our first strip of newspaper.\u00a0 Then we cover with 3-4 inches of soil and 3-4 inches of wood chip which is easily moved on top.\u00a0 This is the easiest way we have found so far.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3154 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png?resize=903%2C674\" alt=\"clip_image004\" width=\"903\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png?w=903&amp;ssl=1 903w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png?resize=600%2C448&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image004.png?resize=768%2C573&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is our first bed which we've planted in broccoli because it was time to plant broccoli for a late summer harvest.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"one_half tie-columns\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image006.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image006.png?resize=658%2C491\" alt=\"clip_image006\" width=\"658\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image006.png?w=658&amp;ssl=1 658w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image006.png?resize=600%2C448&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image006.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"one_half tie-columns last\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3156 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png?resize=903%2C674\" alt=\"clip_image008\" width=\"903\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png?w=903&amp;ssl=1 903w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png?resize=600%2C448&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kolbecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/clip_image008.png?resize=768%2C573&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n\t\n<p>In the picture above you see an area of our land that has blackberry which will either be a blessing or a problem.\u00a0 We plan to cultivate them by keeping them pruned and covered in wood chip.\u00a0 \u00a0Two year old raspberries are also in the fenced off area, and we will be working on establishing a trellised row of them over time.\u00a0 The grass has taken off now that it is spring so there is a lot of work ahead of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Back to Eden Gardening The liturgical readings for the Easter season normally recall the experiences of the first Catholic communities, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.\u00a0 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