Strawberry & Thyme
Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers’ art & story project explores gardens as spaces where human creativity and nature’s creativity meet, and is being exhibited this fall at the Evergreen Brickworks. TPUF is a grassroots organization that’s been growing healthy food, community & environmental education for over 10 years.
I Am Strawberry
The Garden’s Prayer
Our Garden,
Which Art on Earth,
Hallowed be thy ground.
Thy produce come,
Thy yield be grown,
On clay as it is in the pollinator beds.
Give us this day our daily kale,
Callaloo, zucchini, squash, lettuce, and chives,
And forgive us our invasive plants
That grow freely and wild all over the garden.
Deliver our Garden from the bugs
And critters that crunch their way about the stalks.
For thine are thy summer blossoms
That spring forth from the spring showers.
Thy harvest thy glory,
For every season – rain, shine, the perfect elements.
Year in, year out from April to October or thereabouts,
From Seed to Fruit to Compost to Seed again.
Time and time again, cycle after cycle,
Forever and ever, we return to our Garden afresh,
Anew, to begin again.
Amen. Ameen. AUM. Ase. And So It Is!
Time & Thyme Again
Time & Thyme Again