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Cultivating the Garden of Our Souls, by Samantha Stephenson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Samantha Stephenson, Catholic Exchange, March 31, 2026

Samantha Stephenson is a Catholic convert, host of the Grow Where You’re Planted YouTube channel, and author of several books helping Catholics grow in faith and navigate the spiritual and ethical questions shaping our rapidly changing world—whether in the hidden rhythms of home or at the frontiers of science. She homeschools her four children and tends a sprawling garden in Idaho’s Snake River Valley. You can find her at www.snstephenson.com.

Samantha Stephenson headshotWhat is summer to you? Does it taste like watermelon and smell like sunscreen? For gardeners, summer smells like warm earth and tastes of home-grown tomatoes bursting with tangy sweetness. It also means a sweaty, daily nettle with vicious villains, like squash bugs and weeds.

When I first planted my backyard garden, I chose the “no dig” method—layering cardboard and compost right over our weeds. I hauled in wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow until our small patch of earth was no longer a snarled mess, but an unmistakable garden plot, ready for planting. …

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