Time passes by. Second by second things are changing. Imperceptible, but still passing us by. When we stop and look back, we see how things have changed; see what has passed by our eyes without noticing.
Growing food is much like that. Day by day we check the plants have water, and light. We pull weeds to give them the best opportunity to grow.
One day there are flowers. Then fruit. As the months go past, we reap a harvest.
Over the past few days we have been pulling fruits from our plants. Still too soon to be ripe, but we have enough to experiment with.