According to the National Gardening Association, 43 million households planned a backyard garden or put a stake in a share of a community garden in 2009, up from 36 million in 2008.
Here’s the unhappy twist: the explosion of home gardeners — the very people most conscious of buying local food and opting out of the conventional food chain — has paradoxically set the stage for the worst local tomato harvest in memory.
A tomato plant that travels 2,000 miles is no different from a tomato that has traveled 2,000 miles to your plate.
E. coli’s been around for a long time; what’s new is how quickly and widely it spreads when there are only a few big meat producers.
When you start a garden, no matter how small, you become part of an agricultural network that binds you to other farmers and gardeners.
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