RE: Startling statistic

**"Jeff Ball" j*@starband.net**

I know that folks are buying more "organic" foods in the super markets.
Maybe the woman buys the food and guy sprays the pesticide on the lawn.  I
don't know.  Of course 50% of American home landscapes managed by the
homeowner are now managed by the woman in the family, so that model doesn't
really work; or maybe it does.  Maybe most of the serious practitioners of
organic methods are women.  I don't have any data, but my sense is that may
be very true.  Does anyone know the percentage of men and percentage of
women who are serious vegetable gardeners?
Jeff B.

-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Rose Marie
McGee
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:53 AM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: Re: [GWL] 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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