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There’s something about gardening that speaks to so many of us living in the North Carolina countryside. It’s more than the promise of succulent dishes of butter beans, collards, peas, tomatoes and cucumbers crowding the summer dinner table. As you’ve said in your letters, a vibrant, productive garden (whether you’re tending flowers or vegetables) requires hard work, planning and perseverance in the face of disaster, or worse, drought. Gardeners are innovators, inventors and creative problem solvers. Spirituality has an important place in the garden, too. Your faith is renewed when you watch seeds combined with soil, sunlight and rain produce beautiful flowers and vegetables. If there is one thing that you can take away from this month’s feature, let it be the inspiration to plant something this spring and tend it well. You said it best: Gardening feeds the body and soul. Kim Whorton Tripp |
