Diamond Gardening for inner growth! Cultivate your place in the world. More than just growing vegetables or cut flowers in a 12' x 12' plot, plant a garden and renew your freedom. This freedom results from the personal success and satisfaction of self-sufficiency while building community with others. With the rewards of an abundant harvest, you widen your awareness of the subtle workings of nature. When you create a Diamond Garden you become part of an international chain of diamond friends who are linked together through the desire to make this act of gardening a spiritual and freedom filled endeavour.
Diamond Gardening increases awareness and respect for your health and spirituality using your 12' x 12' garden as a microcosm of your place in the world.
Until three hundred years ago, plants were cultivated for food, medical purposes, or for their symbolic protective properties. The beauty that graced a garden was intended to inspire the senses, strengthen the spirit, and comfort the soul. During pagan times and into the early days of Christianity, plants were used during rituals and celebrations, as […]
All over the world, October is the month of harvest festivals, celebrated in great diversity, depending on culture and tradition. A time also suited to reflect upon your personal Diamond Gardening experiences. Did the yield of your garden surprise you with the splendour of nature’s resources? Did you enjoy tasteful meals prepared from what your […]
In the mountains of North Carolina, Martha created two square 12′x12′ Diamond Gardens tip to tip in the yard of a former school building. “Digging Into A Model Of New Dimensions” is her acronym of DIAMOND gardening. Martha also writes: “Garden lesson: After harvesting a crop, I noticed that the clean soil was rapidly overtaken […]
…on the cooperation between heaven, earth and people Farmers for over four thousand years developed methods of intensive production to meet the needs of people. They were faced with the same needs we face today. The basic requirements to replenish the fertility of the soil we use and to respectfully use the earth. In ancient […]
Pardes in Hebrew means GARDEN. In the Hebrew language, vowels do not exist as written letters, so Pardes (Garden) is written as PRDS. Since people interested in the Kaballah become interested in the Hebrew alphabet I thought it would be interesting to include something about the 4 levels that are depicted by this word for […]
1. When did you create your first Diamond Garden? In the early 1970’s I did a great deal of research and experimentation with growing vegetables the Chinese way using raised beds and planting so that no space was wasted. The beds looked like raised diamonds filled with glittering sunbathed crops. In the early 1980’s I […]
