JACKSON COUNTY, Ga. -- There is no explaining it.
"We planted green peppers, tomatoes."
There is no understanding it.
"Radishes, okra, sweet corn."
On May 1, some of the men in the addiction recovery program at the Atlanta Mission's farm in Jackson County, The Potter's House, planted a garden, on a one-acre plot.
"Blackeyed peas, pole beans, watermelons."
And the produce --
"It's basically just exploded."
The produce will not...
stop...
growing.
Steve Lambphear will tell you:
"We've had thousands of squash and thousands of tomatoes, it just keeps coming and coming and coming."
They are feeding not only themselves.
Their one-acre food factory is, somehow, now helping feed hundreds of others in the Atlanta Mission's ministries across North Georgia, including Metro Atlanta.
"It seems like the more we give away, the more we get."
With enough left over -- to sell at produce stands.
"We're just amazed at the crates of vegetables that we pull out of a simple, one-acre garden. I'm talking crates and crates and crates."
Feeding their souls.
"I've had a 30-year drug addiction..."
Helping heal Tim Knudsen.
"You can come out here and just water, you're just at peace with yourself. It's just a very peaceful, serene place to be. And to come and get healed, you could not ask for a better place than this, right here."
And the garden is only the newest part of this intense, decades-old addiction recovery program that claims that 54 percent of the graduates who had life-long addictions stay clean and self-sufficient long-term, supporting themselves and their families.
"I think when you're here, you learn that the last 10, 15, 20, 30 years [of a troubled life] is the past and has no bearing on where you're going in the future," says Jennifer Scholle of the Atlanta Mission.
And now this miracle from the soil, this unexpected, unexplained abundance -- their new garden -- is filling their very souls with hope.
"It's an amazing thing, it really is," Knudsen says. "And we're blessed to be able to do this. It's a great thing."