Renae Bowman

If you’ve had the experience of growing anything from seed, you know that the biggest celebration comes in the middle of the process. You rejoice in the sprouting, and grieve in the ending, but the middle is the money. It is the time where the fruit makes its glorious arrival. The time when the work you’ve done has paid off, and now the harvest begins. The first-fruits. The time when that sweet, red, tomato makes its presence known. When the snap peas are plump and crisp. Wh

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” Ecc 3:1 Fruit trees are on a different level all together. Give me a raised bed, a trowel, some seeds—and I’ll get it done for veggies. But fruit trees? They’re in a class all their own—from the way they’re planted, to the watering, to the pruning, to the feeding—they are in their own world; in their own way. Feeding. It may surprise you, that feeding a fruit tree is specific; as in “when” to