Author: Angela Wong
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The Principle of Observation: Seeing as God Sees
Before God ever spoke creation into being, He observed. Genesis 1:2 tells us, “The earth was formless and void… and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” God looked before He acted. In permaculture, this mirrors the first and most important principle: Observe and interact. Observation is a spiritual discipline…
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“Life on the Edge — Where Worlds Meet”
đź“ś Permaculture Principle: Use Edges and Value the Marginal “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”— Psalm 118:22 (NIV) ✨ Introduction In nature, the richest life often emerges at the boundaries where forest meets field, or where river meets shore. These transitional zones are called “edges” in permaculture, and they are teeming with…
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Redemptive Stewardship and Our Dinner Table
At the Eden Homestead at Acts2School, our Lord has been guiding us in showing what we are to teach about for those who come here for discipleship training as an integral part of our lifestyle curriculum. We have been two years in a wilderness receiving instruction here in Vero Beach Florida. I hope that as…
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Food for Thought
The necessity of eating inevitably involves mankind’s stewardship over God’s creation. It is not merely an agricultural act, but one, which has spiritual, familial, and societal, ramifications. Regarding “corporate eating:” The consumption of corporate food is inferior in every way except in its convenience, and yet this “convenience” extracts a devastatingly high price. What has…
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Life Lessons From Farming
Learning about life from a farmer If you were to look through the Bible, you’d be surprised to find that Scripture encourages us to look to the life of a farmer as a prime example for living our own lives. When Paul wrote to Timothy in encouraging him to be strengthened in the grace of…
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We Are a Culmination of Soil and Spirit
It is said of soil: “It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death unto life. Without proper care for it, we can have no community because without proper care for it we can have no life.” We are the bridge between the Divine and the…
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Welcome!
Welcome to our new website! Eden Homestead is our life’s project in Vero Beach, Florida, and is a ministry of Acts2School. Please check in occasionally, as we continue to build our new site, and please leave your comments to let us know how we are doing as we move in to our new online home.…