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RE: [GWL]: food gardening
Hello, all!
Certainly it would make sense, as more of the commercial foods will become suspect. Are they genetically modified? How much pesticides were used ?
That is something that the average consumer will never truly know until there is enough demand from the public to get correct consumer information on fresh fruits and vegetables. How do we know?
But what is the percentage of people that garden at all? Will these people working in vegetable gardens be new to gardening? Many people are so far from Mother Nature that they only know that food comes from the market, not from seed packets.
A lot of people that could use the economic boost are not even landowners. Though there are a few community gardens in some cities, quite a lot of people that are in need already work two jobs and have little time for gardening.
It should be interesting to see how all of this will turn out.
Regards,
Evelyn Bishop
>From: Steve Solomon
>Reply-To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
>To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
>Subject: Re: [GWL]: Mantis??
>Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:18:10 +1000
>
>Hi, all,
> Let me use this letter to introduce myself. I'm new to this list, but not new to garden writing--been in the game since the late 70s.
> 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 my opinion, when economic times are good people increasingly choose to opt into the system--earn salaries, spend money, go out to dinner. When times are hard, people distrust the system, seek self-sufficient independence, go back to the land. The last big land-return was during the inflation of the 70s ending with the recession of the early 80s. It's been good times since then. Gooder and gooder. As the good times roll, more and more people come to adulthood without any reality on hard times; and popular culture and popular interests change.
> This economic boom ain't likely to continue longer. In fact, my analysis calls for the immediate onset of very hard times. Very. That's because we don't have any significant war nor excuse to spend money preparing for one. Despite the noises made by the current administration in Washington, there won't be any way to politically justify making huge military expenditures until some really credible enemy shows up. Without military spending the unsold inventories build up in industrial warehouses and the layoffs start and the profits decline to zip from overproduction and genuine competition.
> My generation has thoroughly enjoyed (economically) a great war. It started in 1937 in Spain, switched opponents after 1945 an continued as a "cold" war until 1991. During the time of what future historians may call "the fifty-five years war of the late 20th century" there were no major economic down cycles. A few minor ones like the recessions and inflations of the 70s, but nothing major, nothing that couldn't be ameliorated by a little printing press rolling. And not even anything minor since the early 80s. Then in '91 we experienced an ongoing wind-down of war preparation much like that which occurred in the 20s. Initially this brought more spending money, lower taxes, a boom. But now it is over, folks.
> Look for your food gardening public to start to increase as soon as unemployment does. We are likely to soon find out that the FED can't control the economy under these conditions--it certainly couldn't in the 30s.
>
>Best regards,
>Steve Solomon
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