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Re: home food gardening trends


Sorry, I think you can believe the numbers. I keep hoping against hope
that people will wake up and realize the benefits of growing food, but
they don't seem to be doing a whole lot of it.

Miranda Smith

Roger Dorion wrote:

> Are the home-grown food habits of farmers indicative of a larger gardening
> trend? If so, then the recently published 2005 statistics from the USDA
> show
> home-gardening at its lowest point (per capita) in US history, down 15%
> from
> 2004.
>
>
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