THE SOIL & SABBATH

Leviticus 25:1-7
The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in their yield, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap the after growth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year of complete rest for the land. You may eat what the land yields during its Sabbath—you, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound laborers who live with you, for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.

This is the final project for my class at Fuller Seminary, Creation Care & Sabbath Economics during the Fall of 2022. Listed below are the links to the videos used for this project.

Changing Paradigms by Tom's Outdoors

Global Symposium on Soils for Nutrition

Ugly Truth about Industrial Agriculture by PermaCulture

Why I'm not Gardening | 7th year land rest

Living Soil: A Documentary

The Biggest Little Farm

Joel Salatin | Polyface Farms

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis

God and Community Organizing by Hak Joon Lee

SUGGESTED READING:
The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry

[stevesaunders]

Holding until full is not as good as stopping.
An over-sharpened sword is quickly dulled.
A room filled with treasure can’t be protected.
Bragging of wealth and virtue brings your demise.
After finishing your work, rest.
The Way of Heaven.

[compticny]

Growing up my father did row cropping and the garden was divided into groups of seven of 7 rows. When we expanded the garden to get to the 1/2 acre when we stopped expanding. Every year a row from the group of seven was set aside and not planted. In those rows, we buried kitchen scraps, covered with compost and mulch. Always had large harvests which our neighbors appreciated and great-tasting produce.

[Briand-eigs]

No the land is not pur neighbor. Who is my neighbor? The bible tells us in Leviticus 19 18. They are the children of our people. Not very politically correct so very few churches will tell you this. God is going to deal with them. Here is the verse Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.