Hello from Nugget, our resilient—and only surviving—Blue Silkie Bantam at @TheFarminary.

Several members of the Cultivate team have had quite a bit going on personally over the past couple of weeks. That has meant a slight delay in the admissions process. We’ll begin sending notifications later this week, we hope. Thanks for your patience!

Adam Hearlson & @mattgaventa talk with Nate Stucky of @TheFarminary about #TheBiggestLittleFarm doc on @SundayAMMatinee .

Celebrate with PTS Farminary Project Director Nate Stucky during his book launch tonight at @PrincetonPL. The event is free and starts at 7pm.

Join us in August at @TheFarminary—and meet Cultivate leader Pearl Quick: "My joy is in showing folks of all backgrounds—but especially Black and Brown folks—that our bodies respond to putting our hands and feet physically in dirt." Applications now open:

Need a place to rest for a few days? To dream and to chart a new course? If you’re between 25 and 35(ish), consider applying for Cultivate and joining us at the farm this August. We’re looking forward to meeting you—and we’ve already been praying for you. https://t.co/WXdjSuUGGv

This is just simply an AMAZING opportunity for someone. @jeffchu and his team are only selecting 10-12 young adults for this. I am so jealous of whoever gets to go. Apply! Go for it!

Some of you out there are going to be joining me and a few of my friends at the Farminary at Princeton Seminary this summer. You just don’t know it yet. But we’ve been praying for you and prepping for your arrival.

As 2018 nears its end, we are wondering: What would you like to send to the compost pile? What things of decay in your life do you want to submit and surrender to the compost pile of your life, where it can be transformed into something good and healthy, holy and new?

We send decaying things, dying things, to the compost pile, where they are broken down and remade into nourishing dirt and life-giving soil. And in bearing witness to this transformation, we also wonder at the presence of God even in the seemingly messy things of this world.

Farminary Project director Nate Stucky likes to say that the main thing we try to grow at the farm—our primary crop—is good soil.

Under the straw in the foreground of this photo is last year’s compost, now soil that we are moving into our hoop house for upcoming planting. In the background is the “not yet”—fallen leaves and vegetable remnants, rotten squash and eggshells that are still in process.

Christmas blessings to you and yours. We hope that, with each passing day, you will find more of God’s gifts around you—signs of hope amid the world’s despair, signs of growth and life where we are used to seeing decay and death, signs of salvation and love amid loss and fear.

“Food and faith—what a beautiful and complicated, bounteous and messy pair.” Writing for GATHER, @TheFarminary director Nathan Stucky explores the relationship between meals and God.

“When ‘waste’ is a category for produce or land, it’s a few short steps from categorizing people as ‘waste.’” —Farminary Director Nate Stucky in this @NewFoodEconomy/@Jiminkanggg piece

Farminary Director Nate Stucky is on @danwhitehodge’s @Profanefaith podcast this week, talking Sabbath, freedom, and God’s love: “Put down the thing you’re tempted to believe your life depends on, and then your hands are open to receive this grace.”

This is essentially what we pray for at @TheFarminary :)

May the beauty and grace of Sabbath rest be yours on this Lord’s day.

Meet August and her mother, Daisy, the newest residents of the farm. They will be cared for by the students in Professor Bloch-Smith’s Culture and Society of Ancient Israel class, along with our farmhands.