Mother of the Harvest — Global and Cultural — Marian Devotion Downloadable 8k Digital Illustration

"The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us."
Psalm 67:6

She is found in the dirt under the fingernails and ache of the back at sundown. This is the woman of the Threshing Floor and the Orchard, representing the 30% of the world's population who work the soil to feed the rest. She is guardian of the Seasonal Cycle, standing in grain fields of the Pampas, rice paddies of the Mekong, and corn belts of the Midwest. She is the mother of the Subsistence and the Surplus, a witness to the anxiety of the drought and the relief of the first rain. Rendered in dried corn kernels and layered maize husks, milpa agricultural tradition of Mexico.