As we go about the Spring cleaning of our homesteads, please understand that a holy and healing garden is in our hands. People say, “Oh, I understand that!” and then go on to hire some kind of stormtrooper to decimate the fay on their own lands. For example, people use noisy, polluting leaf blowers, lawnmowers, and hedge pruners. ‘Tis a huge racket! The environmental devastation of these deadly machines is killing off wildlife one backyard, one homestead at a time. Moreover, people spray their lands with pesticides that poison the birds, the bees, the butterflies, the ladybugs, not to mention the very plants they’re trying to grow. Please know that as you bumble about your garden, there is a better way than to blast at the beauty around you! Yesterday, I managed to properly prune a half-acre of garden space in a few hours with just my own hands. During this time, I carefully pussyfooted by a bumble bee’s underground burrow. Then, I was able to observe with joy from a few feet away as our head garden bee bumbler went about his divine business of pollination. Through trowel and error hand-in-hand with the fay we get the glorious job of gardening done. Meanwhile, the hummingbirds and butterflies flew about from flower to flower. Moreover, I gladly watched as a lovely pair of ladybugs ate aphids, spider mites, fungi, and mildew. I’m very careful to prune about the plants such that essential creatures of the garden are not harmed. I’m in heaven as they say as I bathe in the sunlight and garden away. And what is the purpose of a garden if not beauty and fecundity? Mama Maya for millions of years has kept nature in balance with friends of the forest known as the fay. Organic gardening with one’s own hands is the time-tested and proven way to keep a garden productive over the long haul. For most homestead gardens of a few acres or less, strategic, organic planting and pruning with one’s own hands is the wisest approach to fertile land and fruitful harvesting. Not to mention that the practice of organic gardening will get you into shape and heal you physically and spiritually. The Garden of Eden is there to nourish us metaphysically as we bask in the glory of our Creator.