The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 360

Good afternoon everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 70 of our latest lock down. The Mindful Farmer is doing a bit of work in the gardens these days. Shovels, rakes, hoes and hedge trimmers are all coming out of storage. The soil needs to be nourished, the plants need pruning and looking after, seedlings need to be planted and so on. In Ballinwillin we have a lot of mature hedging and this requires a lot of work, some of my signs in the Thinking Path need repair after the winter storms, but March and April, with our help, allows all that is beautiful in the garden to fall back into shape again. I pray a lot when I'm gardening and it reminds me that the dawn of the year is nigh and brings hope. We will have longer, brighter days, more growth, more colour, more fragrance. It all symbolises hope and hope is beyond what we can imagine because we all know that spring always comes around. Do we realise that it is always different? Always more beautiful? So today, let us bless and celebrate the coming and the imagination of spring. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your Wednesday smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick