hmmmm....If Jesus tarries, would you start a local garden? Food Restrictions Tied to UN Agenda 2030; (click watch without account) Farming in the church age is a lot of work … personally I wouldn’t do it cause I don’t have the energy. I’m watching some of my neighbor’s trying to keep up with the community garden and they are worn out … always pulling the weeds, trying to kill the Japanese beetles, etc. and watering everything twice daily. We’ve been lacking the rain this summer. On a good note with no rain … we don’t have a problem with the slugs this year. In the millennium though … it will be fun to care for the gardens … when the curse is removed and no more weeds and perhaps it will be like Garden of Eden weather and everything naturally gets watered at night time from the dew? Oh wait … I think it says those who don’t honor Feast of Tabernacles and visit Jerusalem will not receive any rain. So I guess it will still be rain fall as we know it. I’m currently been blessed with the state funding food banks. I’m signed up and getting the free veggies /fruits each week and they have been very generous in the hand outs. Today’s fruit were 33 plums 😳 and they wanted to know if I wanted more. :wacko: Monday were the big red tomatoes and cucumbers. I have enough potatoes and onions to hold me all summer. They are generous in the can goods so I’m building up my supply for the left behind to enjoy. I think we fly away this fall so I’m not worrying about 2023 and beyond. Well Kolleen and Geri, I have a great garden — raised bed (earth boxes) and my son-in-law put them up to waist height so no no weeding and bending at all, and as I am a lazy gardener and have very little time — I have it water on a timer to fill the 2.5 gallon reservoir. I plant everything. My neighbor started the pumpkin patch and I have a fig tree, will put in a small apple orchard and more berry bushes as soon as the fence goes up and I am thinking about additional trees, looked at the dwarf banana and maybe a couple peach trees to start those. I also do the hydroponic and herb garden inside — I should have been a farmer. :calvin …. Anyway - I am all set no matter if we go :flyup: or stay and for those that are left they will have seeds and everything to help with the extreme food shortages that will occur, per revelation. If we have severe food shortages you can expect to see local gardens robbed. People will have to post 24 hour vigils to keep the thief's away. At some point, if things get bad enough, and they will, there will be killing over home grown food. Thank God for the rapture so we will not have to endure such a period. Another option is to get to know your wild edibles! Around where I live we have elderberry, blackberry, mulberry, muscadines, wild grapes (not muscidines) maypops and black walnuts - all edible and all free for the taking and no farming necessary. There’s also Polk salad if you know how to cook it (it can be poisonous if not prepared correctly) and dandelions. 90% of purple/black berries are edible if you know which ones, 50% of red berries are edible (not good odds - you had better know which ones) but get to know your wild edibles - I’ll take that over eating bugs! No Diss on you John the Baptist but locusts will be my last resort! As Hank Williams Jr. once sang about - “a country boy will survive!” A good resource for wild edibles is something I found at a Barnes and Noble bookstore years ago - an Army field survival guide which teaches you how to test unknown berries for edibility. I picked it up years ago when I was flying - I kept it in my flight bag because I figured if I ever went down in my plane and had to spend a day or two in the woods until I was found it could come in handy - but it has all kinds of good info in there that was worth the 10 or 15 bucks I paid for it! But for the record, I will be shocked if we are here to 2030 to see that. Frankly all the 2030 timeframe is is Agenda 21 repackaged. The NWO wanted to get their agenda in place by 2021, but the Restrainer kept restraining and now they had to move the goal line a few years down the road. That is a testimony to the restraining power of the Restrainer - but He won’t restrain forever, I think we are out of here soon. I sure hope so anyway! Oh that book sounds so interesting, Derrick! I wish I had it years ago … I saw this one red berry bush on our property and thought the berries were edible. Quickly realized NOOOOOO and spit it out. Should have known because the birds didn’t touch them. :mdrmdr: I brought up a few wild black raspberry and red raspberry bushes from NJ and planted them and they produced mega crop each summer. We enjoyed them and so did the birds. They were too big to dig up and bring to my current place. The price of raspberries in the grocery stores now for a tiny container is untouchable. We tried growing blueberries but they didn’t do too well. Same with the grapevines. The season is too short .. needed 1 more month on the vine before picking and it would always be a frost. Not sure if people grow grapes in greenhouses? The food bank today had seaweed professionally packaged … probably was donated from the local health food store … I was not tempted to try it but some lady said oh seaweed and grabbed a box. 🥴 There is no way I can eat bugs either even if they are covered in melted chocolate. :negative: Oh and forgot to mention earlier today I had an interesting talk with one of the workers at the food bank. He was an older gentleman who gives out your ticket number and check list form wish list of foods you would like. He followed me back to my vehicle and we got to talking while I was unloading the food … I wanted to give them back the cardboard boxes and wagon. He said he is Baptist and I said so am I but I don’t go to church. He said he doesn’t always attend now since his wife has died last year. Then he said he went to seminary college in Eastern PA and his dad was a pastor, his grandfather, his and names so many relatives in his family who were preachers too. But he didn’t want to go in the ministry … his dad forced him .. hoping he would take over his church eventually. He said he is shy and can’t come up with sermons … he rather be kind and help people instead and that’s why he volunteers to work with the food bank. I said well its great to be kind and helpful to people but we can’t trust in our works for salvation to get us into heaven .. Only Jesus paid the price with shedding His blood and we have to put our faith and trust in Him alone and ask Him to take away our sins. I said please read this Bible tract “God’s Bridge to Eternal Life” when you get home and he said he would. So if you prayer warriors could say a prayer for him, that would be great! Thank you. That’s great Geri, some of the best spiritual encounters are those seemingly “random” people that God puts in our path - of course we know the wonderful tapestry He weaves and you and the other gentleman were mean to be right where you were today and he needed to hear exactly what you had to say. I will keep him in prayer. Thank you, Derrick for praying for his soul! Yep … the irony is I was talking to another lady while she was sitting in her vehicle and I was standing by her driver side door as we were waiting our turn for the others to leave. And I was trying to get the conversation to the spiritual side but it just never happened. I learned she comes every week … drives a distance … I said isn’t there one closer and named that city. She said yes, but they aren’t very nice nor organized. So maybe there will be a next time we shall meet again? Meanwhile I didn’t expect to be talking to this worker instead. Yes, it is neat how the Lord works and puts the right people across our pathway for them to hear the GoodNews. :yes: Growing a veggie garden as we speak. Have had a garden years ago when the kids were little and I was at home with them. If you don’t have much room, grow bags work great! You can do it…if not for yourself then for those left behind who still may come to a saving knowledge of Jesus. I know Geri ~ the thought of gardening is just out of the question for us. I feel worn out just thinking about it! But if it came to that, I know there would be some way to contribute to a local effort for the neighborhood or surrounding area. Whatever the deep state can push to accomplish, I have no doubt they will try, long before 2030. There is a map of all the USA land Gates has bought up, and it is a lot! I think these are tense and trying times, but we know Who holds us in His hands; thank You Lord! Tammie, I love the look and ease of the raised garden / flower beds. The best idea ever! Your garden description sounds amazing! Whether tilling the ground or receiving food gifts from what is tilled, either way, is a blessing. I'll be fit to garden in heaven and it will be a joy! 
