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ISSUE TWO | SEPT/OCT

GREEN HANDS

Grow Your Own Food God’s Way

RESTORE THE LAND

By: Nicholas Munyororo

RESTORE THE LAND of God, He fashioned him out of will not have the natural nutrients
Genesis 1:26- Let us make man the dust of the ground. Man was found in the soil and may cause
in Our image, according to our made from the dust of the ground diseases (cancer) simply because
likeness; let them have dominion and therefore what he was given humans require natural nutrients
over the fish of the sea, over for food would naturally also come and not chemicals to nurture and
the birds of the air, and over the from the same ground. The plants strengthen their bodies. It is not a
cattle,over the earth and over and trees that man gets his food surprise then, that all the nutrients
every creeping thing that creeps from grow in the soil from which required in the human body can be
on the earth. he was created. The soil provides found in the soil. Soil that has been
the nutrients that help the plants made infertile can be restored
In our last article we saw how the to grow. Nutrients are transferred to its former fertility by applying
soils in Africa have been degraded from the soil to the plant and farming techniques which imitate
and depleted through deforestation, from the plant to the body of man Gods way of farming. God’s
soil erosion, plantation farming when he eats it. For this reason, garden was a highly productive
(mono-cropping), increasing use the nutritional value of the soil rainforest, which was in need of
of fertilizers and pesticides and (fertility) is of prime importance nothing. The forest was productive
herbicides. A healing of our minds when growing food. even in drought years and never
and spirits to mirror the image in slowed or lost its productivity. The
which we were created, will result When the soil is depleted of its trees never dried up and always
in a healing and restoration of the fertility through mono-cropping, produced fruit in every season.
land, so that it produces the food soil erosion, slash and burn God put in place a system which
able to nourish our bodies in the farming techniques, fertilizers are allowed the plants and the soil to
way originally intended. God gave used to feed the plants growing coexist with high production levels,
man “every herb that yields seed in the land. In the last article we no environmental degradation and
which is on the face of all the earth saw that use of chemical fertilizers little or no soil erosion and with
and every tree whose fruit yields can continue to the point where ability to tolerate the most severe
seed” for food. We also see in nothing will grow on the land until climate of the African continent.
Genesis 2 that though man was chemical fertilizers are applied. The system God put in place that
made in the image and likeness Food that has been grown this way created the most productive eco
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