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Re: Good news on an old topic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Hamptongar@aol.com>

> I'd be very interested in the demographics of the attendees, especially
> those under 40.  I've been hearing rumblings that there's a resurgence of
> interest in conservation, ecology and gardening in the 40

And you have it. There were a hundred twenty paid enrollees for Garden Days 
in this small, rural county, almost double last year. Given three choices 
for the morning session -- culinary herbs and pruning woody ornamentals 
being the other two -- a hundred people came to the vegetable session. It 
was titled Not Your Grandfathers Vegetable Garden and emphasized a very 
small garden for fresh eating through the summer. There were a handful of 
twenty-somethings and the expected coterie of oldsters, but expanding your 
cohort slightly, say under 45, I would say that nearly half were that young. 
I was also surprised that easily a third were men.

Yep, I think we're seeing a vegetable revival.

D 

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