December progress

This past week was a great week on the project! Classes are going well, plants are coming up, and compost work is keeping us busy. We are helping to build a home for the pastor of the community at the agriculture training center. We were excited to see one wall completed this week!

Over the last week and a half we've gathered several thousand pounds of horse manure, two thousand pounds of organic cucumbers, and a truck load of other compost materials. We gather compost materials at 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning. Every other day the compost needs to be turned by hand. It's dirty, heavy, smells and gets all over your clothes and shoes. And, it takes time to see results! But without it, the hard dry clay-like soil will not yield any fruit. It's similar to our hearts. They are hard. Some take years of preparation before they are soft enough to yield the wonderful fruit the Lord can bring. The preparation is not easy. It's poco a poco (little by little), day by day.