Forgotten Frugal Strategies Gardening My mom and dad planted a big garden every spring when I was a kid. We grew corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce and dill year in and year out. It was a lot of work: That ambitious city garden took up an entire vacant residential lot next to our house. But it was a source of pride and a major source of food. We hauled bushelbaskets full of potatoes to the basement and would use them all winter long. My brother and I sold excess tomatoes and cucumbers to neighbors and friends all over town (organic, local and home-delivered, no less). I know it sounds a bit too bucolic to be real, but it wasn’t that unusual in Iowa to see big family gardens, even as late as the 1970s and ’80s. The burgeoning lawns-to-gardens movement is re-energizing this old idea of self-sufficient food sourcing. From containers planted with herbs on the balconies of big-city high-rises to neighborhood co-op garden programs, growing our own food is becoming cool again. Maybe it’s time more of us tilled a little spot of soil and tested our green thumbs. By Kentin Waits time/time/nation/article/0,8599,1816764,00.html
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:29:27 +0000
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