Verlyn is on a roll, with today’s NY Times column, Sow Those Seeds!, praising gardening’s resurgence in tough times.
Growing a vegetable garden isn’t going to balance the budget or replace lost benefits or even begin to make up for the shock of a lost job. But part of the crisis we face is a sense of alienation and powerlessness. You don’t meet many alienated gardeners, unless it’s been a terrible woodchuck year.
Thanks for sharing this. It will strike a chord with a lot of people. Gardening is such a restorative activity… and we could all use a little restoration about now!