08/31/2026
🌿 **God has a sense of humor… and the food forest keeps reminding me.**
Here at Dirt to Nurture Food Forest, we grow many of the botanicals that eventually make their way into our Outdoorsy Skincare products. But we don’t just grow skincare ingredients—we grow food for our table, too.
This year has been an interesting one.
We had frost and hail in late spring that affected much of our fruit, so we didn’t get the abundance of peaches and plums we had hoped for. Perhaps God knew we still had plenty of peaches in the freezer that we needed to use!
But then… the squash and other vegetables took over. 😂 And these are the very things we don’t have in the freezer and actually want to eat!
And the funny part? We didn’t even plant most of them this year. They volunteered from seeds left behind, and now they’re growing absolutely bonkers throughout the food forest.
It’s such a beautiful reminder that sometimes abundance doesn’t come in the form we expect.
We may have fewer peaches and plums this season, but God provided an abundance somewhere else. We have more berries, figs, and greens this year. And now we have fresh vegetables growing right outside our door—food we can harvest for our meals instead of buying from the grocery store or farmers market.
That’s one of the things I love most about growing a food forest.
🌿 Some plants nourish our skin.
🥒 Some nourish our bodies and souls.
🌱 Some simply show up on their own and surprise us.
And all of it reminds me that we can plant, tend, water, and plan…but ultimately, **God gives the increase.**
*"So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."*
— 1 Corinthians 3:7
Another little lesson from the Dirt to Nurture Food Forest. 🌿
