My latest passion is the MANNA garden. This is an acronym meaning Making Authentically Natural Nutrition Available. The garden itself is in a portable planting bag AKA Publix recycle grocery bag. I pulled out the piece of plastic in the bottom, turned it inside out, painted a catchy logo, filled it with great soil and planted. Granted, I will not be able to feed lots of folks, but it does provide excellent herbs and a cuke or two. One of my friends takes hers to work and puts it out on the hood of her car while she is inside making networks hum.
Manna was the Hebrew for WHAT? This was evidently the reaction the first Hebrew had to the flaky stuff they found on the ground during the Exodus. Manna was food for a day...one day. It rotted if you got greedy and tried to collect too much of it. Only on the eve preceding the Sabbath could one collect two days worth of it. The little Manna gardens are one day's worth of food...not even an entire day's worth. They are one or two bites of food. Still they serve a purpose. They keep me mindful of the miracle that is food production. Only plants---the original solar collectors...can photosynthesize. No human can. As Wendell Berry said, " Lots of us are not interested in GROWING food. All of us are interested in EATING it.
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