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The Forest Garden Sept. 2025

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As always happens at this time of year, I look back and think of all the projects I wanted to accomplish in the forest garden over the summer.

I usually look back with a regret. This year not so much. It’s not that I accomplished all those projects, but I did accomplish some and I did a lot of gardening in comparison to previous years.

I think a part of my satisfaction this year, comes from the fact that we have actually used a lot of the produce from the forest garden. We have been making iced tea from this mint all summer in place of Kool-Aid.

The chickens have been keeping us in eggs as well.

For the first time ever, I had success with potatoes.

And the flowers this year, have been amazing.

…AND GLAD OF IT!

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So I announced in the short yesterday that my youngest daughter and her family are moving in with us at the end of September.

I am really excited to see what God’s next step is for my son-in-law and daughter and their two girls.

I know this is a season of change and a season of growth for all of us.

I sense that our family is at another pivot point in its history, and for some reason this feels like a big one. Maybe it’s just the times we are living in. Maybe it is the reading and listening I am doing of late. Maybe it is something deeper than that, bigger than that. At this point I am uncertain.

What I do know is I am glad to have my family around me at this season. I am glad we are doing life together. I am glad we are doing church together. I am glad we are all of us close in proximity.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN YOUR OWN FAMILY SAGA.