FARMERS BIBLE ALMANAC

The Bible may sometimes be more difficult for those without any agricultural background. So much of the narrative is about sheep, goats, donkeys, grapes, bulls, vineyards, trees, fruit, eggs, hens, roosters, soil, water, sprouts, wheat, barley and other farming references.
The Bible may sound more like a wholesome story of Old McDonald’s Farm (not McDonald’s restaurants) than a story of historical Israel and the coming Jesus in the New Testament. Parables like The Sower that goes out and sows seed on four kinds of soil might just be a story from some other fairytale. What does ‘sow seeds’ mean? My thoughts on this became more convinced on this idea while recently reading this:
‘A 2021 survey found that 42% of consumers didn’t know Lay’s were made out of the potatoes.’ The bag only says Lay’s Classic or some flavor and shows a picture of a sliced potato on the bag. They are in process of changing the bag after years of production to give more definition and write ‘potato chips’ on the bag with a picture of a potato.

‘Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O…’ With a quack, quack here and quack, quack there…’

“A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ “‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’” Jesus