A Serving of Sprouts, Hold the Bugs

A lot is going on in my mind and life lately.  Too much to share here, at least right now.  So I resort to my "happy place"...do you feel it coming?  Can you guess?  Get ready to be bored...

 ...it's more talk about--yes--gardening, and what I think about when out in the garden.  

Maybe the broader, umbrella topic could be called "food".  

On this topic of food, we tend to cause raised or furrowed eyebrows by friends or acquaintances, and the occasional rolling of the eyes by my beloved Dad, because we eat kosher.  No, we're not Jewish (though our Messiah Yeshua is).  And no, we don't separate meat from dairy or anything like that.  We just simply follow the biblical dietary laws of kashrut, from where the English term "kosher" comes from, that can be found in the Torah given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.  That is our conviction, and the conviction of a growing number of followers of Jesus/Yeshua as they trace back their spiritual heritage a couple thousand years to when He walked among us.   (Just so I don't get grief from anonymous readers claiming that I am somehow standing in judgement of your eggs and bacon breakfasts, and therefore your "freedom in Christ"... Please know: That's not my bag.  I'm working on the log in MY eye, you will do well to do the same, fair reader.) 

Well, this is the quandary we are in...and kosher or not...you will want to answer the same question: 

How does one NOT eat bugs and worms when gardening without pesticides?  

I mean, only a little amount of time tending your own veggie garden reveals to you the dozens of ways that bugs can hide in and among your garden produce.  I  just harvested several pounds of brussel sprouts, and I'm just saying that the odds are waaaaay in favor of ingesting something not only "unclean", but super gross!  Eww.  And no, I don't mean the brussel sprouts themselves!  We are big fans of sprouts in the Grant home.  Which is good...because I have HUNDREDS.  Seriously...and I'm not even close to being done.

Now to find out how to ward off itty bitty bugs and spiders and worms naturally next year...   

Any advice???