Tiny Seeds Sprouting in Stone

The reseeding of good things. This is the Remarkable Ordinary.

Last year I planted buttercrunch lettuce in the vegetable garden room. It grew. It flourished. We couldn’t eat it fast enough. I gave away piles of it. Some of it went to seed before I had a chance to clean up my beds at the end of the season. Unbeknownst to me, the wind scattered those seeds into the pathways and…

…come November, we had a surprise patch of buttercrunch lettuce sprouting out of the pea gravel. I left it. Eventually it flourished and gifted us with a second harvest.

We were eating salad fresh from the garden all the way into December!

This Spring when I headed to the garden to ready the beds for planting, I noticed little sprouts coming up again in the pathways. Rather than pull them, I left them. And now we are enjoying a third harvest of fresh leafy greens! We have so much delightful abundance we’ve been giving it away by the bagful!

A tiny two dollar seed packet has surprised us with three abundant seasons of fresh organic greens. It even grew out of stones two inches thick- ground that appears hard and infertile.

May the little seeds of every good thing dropped in the world scatter and surprise us with the breadth of their nourishment and abundance! May they even rise up in places that seem too shallow or inhospitable to take root!