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Re: Startling statistic

Jeff,
You are raising an interesting issue. Why then is the number of organic "consumers" increasing in the food markets but not the garden industry?
Rose Marie Nichols McGee
On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Jeff Ball wrote:
Now I wish I could say with confidence that such a scenario is common among
American gardeners. Unfortunately I don't even believe such a scenario is
common among folks who call themselves "organic gardeners", mostly because
soil was always a side issue in the "organic mantra" in my experience with
Rodale and New Alchemey Institute in Cape Cod. Adding the organic stuff to
soil when STARTING a garden was a big deal, but the ongoing month to month
care of the soil was never a priority. The priority was focused on the
elimination of the use of synthetic pesticides.
So maybe having only 2% of the consumer pesiticide market being organic,
might not mean that only 2% of the 15 million gardeners in this country are
organic gardeners. Nevertheless, the 2% figure indicates to me that there
is little increase in the movement toward organic gardening. 
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