Welcome to March…the month when gardeners begin scheming and planning for a season or two spent digging in the soil. As you get ready to plant flowers, fruits, vegetables and herbs this spring, we thought we’d revisit how some cultures and religions welcome spring and plant seeds.
The idea of blessing seeds is certainly not new. It was and still is a part of seasonal planting in Native American cultures. In Catholicism, the Rogation Days are when farmers and gardeners pray for protection in fields and for livestock. In Sonsonate, El Salvador there’s a ritual of the indigenous community Los Izalcos to bless seeds before the planting season. And for some, the spring Equinox is a traditional time to perform special blessings over the seeds which were gathered the previous fall.
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