Saturday, January 03, 2015

First fruits


I have lived in cities all my life before moving to the James O Fraser Centre.  I wasn't much of a gardner or farmer or handyman.  Here we raise pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, farm rice and corn.  It's been a steep learning curve but a good one.  I've learnt so much.  My latest project is a strawberry patch.  Back in Australia I couldn't even keep any of the strawberry plants I bought alive.  Here after learning about soil, watering, sun and fertiliser, strawberry runners, I've taken 1 strawberry pot and grown it to 3 patches of strawberries with about 20 strawberry plants.  The first fruits have just come out.  Who would have guessed all this from a "city boy".  There are so many new skills I've learnt since coming to Thailand.  It's wonderful the places God has taken me to.