The People Are Hungry

Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds, honey and curds, sheep and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”  

2 Samuel 17:27-29

I'm going to dovetail with yesterday's post for tonight's journal entry.  I strongly feel that the Bible contains infinite riches in terms of spiritual wisdom.  It also is chockablock full of practical information.   With all the talk of increased food pricing, it is wise to plant more and store more.  If you'll remember in the story of Joseph, there was going to be a famine in the land.  Joseph prepared in advance and was able to provide for their needs and those of others.  So we should PREPARE, PROVIDE and SHARE of the excess.

In the Scripture above from Samuel, we learn that the people were hungry.  Beans was one of the things that was grown to satiate their hunger.  Well, that settles it.  We'll plant more beans.  The first variety of bean I'll plant this year is a row of Italian Roma II beans.  These are flat beans that, to me at least, has the best flavor of all snap beans.

Tricia and I pulled back the mulch from an area in the garden right up next to where the broccoli is currently planted.  The broccoli is about finished.  We'll be cutting it down and feeding the greens to some cows and goats that come begging by the fence shortly.

The seed bed is perfect.  The soil is rich and loose, moist and full of organic matter and earthworms.  Healthy soil, good seed, and good weather is a good start for the spring crop.  The germination may be a little slow since we're still getting some cool weather. 

After this weekend when it warms up, we'll be planting Contender snap beans and then Blue Lake bush beans.  When I plant green beans, I recall being just a kid in elementary school and we'd have a class project in which we'd grow green beans in Dixie Cups.  Good memories!