This is Mary Myrick checking in again with more interesting facts about gardening.
Don’t put on your straw hat just yet, but gardening is cool again. Today, our food travels an average of 1500 miles from farm to table—that distance has real ramifications on food cost, quality and the environment. With the recent economic downturn, a renewed interest in green living, and rising food prices, more young people are embracing gardening again.
But will these hipster gardeners have the same dedication to the task as their grandparents? And does a generation raised on fast food even have the know-how to successfully tend the earth? Like sewing or cooking, gardening is often a skill , or even an art, handed down from one generation to another. You can learn the same skills later in life, but it is considerably harder if you weren’t taught the basics of gardening as a child. Without the benefit of this early training, many young gardeners will find the experiment of gardening more challenging than initially expected.
But like any worthy objective, gardening brings at least as many rewards as it does challenges.
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