WELLSPRING CHARITABLE GARDENS

During this Easter week, our Wellspring Charitable Garden staff and volunteers have been busy preparing the ground to receive the new seedlings that have been planted by loving hands in good soil. As I contemplate the week of Jesus’s death and resurrection, I can’t help thinking about today in particular. Christians call the Friday before Easter when Jesus was crucified, “Good”. But how can any day that someone dies be considered a good day? The truth is that when we lose

There are many seasons of "letting go" in our garden! As I walk the rows, I can't help feeling a sense of sadness as I look at all the spent vegetation that I need to pull out and place in a heap on our compost pile. Just a few months ago these plants were full of life and energy, bursting forth with large heads of nutritious heirloom broccoli and cauliflower. And even after the large and central "flower" was cut and placed in your baskets, a little colony of smaller, sweet