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Re: [GWL]: Mantis??

Problems militating against vegetable gardening are big ugly houses on 
little tiny lots, and idiotic covenants against growing anything but grass 
in a subdivision.  Many younger people thirst for basic information on 
gardening, and they are learning fast.  Some are raising everything but 
eyebrows in containers.  Perhaps information on setting up a community 
garden would be a good January column.  Margaret Lauterbach

At 08:18 PM 7/31/01 -0700, you wrote:
>This has been a bit of a puzzle to me as well.  Food gardening has tended to
>increase when economic times are poor, during the depression, the war and in
>the early 70's when inflation was a problem.  To put it another way, seed
>companies have historically had an inverse relationship to the economy. The
>difference today is a generation that has not grown up around gardeners and
>are intimidated and need basic information.  I find as I give talks I often
>have a response of "grow it from seed, I'm not sure I could do that" to
>which I always enjoy replying, of course you can, your ancestors have been
>doing it for thousands of years.  Of course today fewer people are setup to
>do food gardening and it is a shame.  More and more we learn of the complex
>nutritive value of fresh fruits and vegetables. Those who grow some of their
>own have fresh, organic, produce from gourmet varieties, and fresh cut herbs
>and flowers.
>Rose Marie Nichols McGee
>Nichols Garden Nursery
> > From: Steve Solomon <ssolomon@soilandhealth.org>
> >
> > Have a few considerations about the seemingly unending decline in 
> interest in
> > food gardening. The decline is far greater than might be caused by the 
> change
> > in age-mix demographics called "baby boomer."
> > Food gardening is what investment gurus call a counter-cyclical 
> activity. In
> >

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