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These Days, “Conservatives” Aren’t.
Jonah Goldberg:

The market system is man-made, just as gardens are. But it is not the product of any individual will. It is a crowdsourced network of institutions, constructed over generations of trial and error, learned best practices, and the accumulation of common law and legislation alike. …

It is only when someone tears down or batters these Chestertonian fences all around us that we discover those fences are there for a reason. … That’s where we are now. One man is singlehandedly taking a plow to the garden because he is confident that he knows better than, almost literally, everyone. And his defenders have few, if any, serious arguments in his defense beyond “trust him.”

All Lined Up

Tomatoes started from seed in the garage in January (under lights) went into the beds today. Fertilized, planted, staked, mulched, and watered. Twenty-one plants, six varieties. The game’s afoot, Watson!

Tomato seedlings just planted and staked in raised beds in galvanized troughs.

Grateful

I planted 200 of these suckers last November, and am so glad to see them coming up. God grew ‘em, not me. But I did participate in the project.

bright yellow dafdodils Auto-generated description: A garden of vibrant yellow daffodils is blooming, surrounded by patches of soil and bordered by stone tiles.

Texas Harvest

It never seems like it in August, but there are upsides to gardening in a hot state.

a bowl of yellow-orange cherry tomatoes

Sun Gold cherry tomatoes

Leah Bayans:

When I first sat with Wendell [Berry] to talk about educating farmers as farmers, he started by turning to the idea of love—in the fullness of the term, not sentimentalized but fully rounded, with the joyful and the difficult joined through membership in a place and with its people.

He then asked a question that I try to answer every day: what works does this love propose?

Start with love, then see what works that love proposes. (H/T: @ayjay)

Red & Ready / 🌱
A container full of bright red tomatoes.

The little ones that don’t look quite red are ‘Sungolds,’ which aren’t supposed to be red, but yellow. (Just sayin'.)

Slow Food
Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich in 3 parts.

I started making ths BLT a bit less than six months ago. (At least the “T”.)