Try It; It’ll Grow on You
(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)
Gardeners don't grow food to get rich, or even to save money. Ask why, and they'll tell you that fresh homegrown produce tastes better, is more nutritious and is more interesting than the bred-for-shipping kind sold in stores. Growing it is fun, absorbing, satisfying. They might mention physical fitness, or their ecological footprint. But economy seems to have little to do with it. They'll even chuckle about the "$100" tomato they just put on their plate. By the time they've paid for grading, loam, a sprinkler system, an electric fence, fertilizer, mulch, hired help, paving stones for the path and a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, they'd have done better at the supermarket, if money were the point.
Gardeners don't grow food to get rich, or even to save money. Ask why, and they'll tell you that fresh homegrown produce tastes better, is more nutritious and is more interesting than the bred-for-shipping kind sold in stores. Growing it is fun, absorbing, satisfying. They might mention physical fitness, or their ecological footprint. But economy seems to have little to do with it. They'll even chuckle about the "$100" tomato they just put on their plate. By the time they've paid for grading, loam, a sprinkler system, an electric fence, fertilizer, mulch, hired help, paving stones for the path and a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, they'd have done better at the supermarket, if money were the point.
