Mary Myrick

I’m not sure what’s going on the world of tomatoes right now, but it seems that I’ve been seeing “out of tomatoes” signs in more than one restaurant.  Well, I for one cannot go through a summer without tomatoes, so this situation just confirmed that I need to start my own garden.  It’s ironic that right after I made this decision, I happened to catch The Ellen Show and she was talking about the Home Farming movement.  I was intrigued and I did a bit of digging (no pun intended).

Indeed, there is a Home Farming movement and it’s being promoted by Kraft Foods.  I checked out the website and found much more than I honestly expected.  If you’re looking for an excuse NOT to do your own garden – don’t go here.

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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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