Leslie says:

Donna and I have been sisterfriends for years and although we've both been interested in and have each had gardens, we didn't undertake a shared garden until 2011. Of course we started a big gardening project during the hottest summer on record in Oklahoma in the midst of a crushing drought. And, of course God blessed us with a lush, green oasis in the midst of a parched pasture that, despite hours and hours of work......produced very little. In retrospect, we believe God grew the garden last summer to serve as a haven for His creatures. It was alive with bees, wasps, hornets, butterflies, a fat rabbit, several dogs trying to stay cool, frogs, lizards and probably a snake or two. There were what looked and felt like millions of grasshoppers in all colors and sizes and they feasted on anything green. We named the garden God's Bounty because the blessings, while not always of the vegetable kind, were plentiful and, of course, always bestowed upon us exactly when most needed.

So, we find ourselves once again longing for dirt encrusted fingernails and hot summer mornings. The gardening books and journals are covering many surfaces and seed packets are stacked haphazardly on the table and today, March 3, 2012, we spent our first day in God's Bounty.

Donna says:

God's Bounty. A place of life and hope and healing.  There are few places where that is more evident than in a garden.  As is often the case, what was harvested over the course of the season wasn't entirely what Leslie and I expected when we began diligently researching and dreaming on a bleak January day.   What an experience it was - from the chilly grays of winter to the scorched browns of summer.  I'm sure we will be reliving our times in God's Bounty 2011 on these pages just as we did while we worked today.   Join us in God's Bounty.  A place of life and hope and healing