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If you are talking about world hunger, there is 3X more ground than in USA that is not utilized. Those countries like it that way.Hunger has a way of changing priorities...and hunger is coming. Perhaps these ideas won't seem so crazy in the coming years
I didn't mean to imply that kids should be made to work in gardens. I meant that gardening and food preservation should be offered as classes. I'm betting some kids would welcome some time in the sun and playing in the dirt& you think you will get students to do physical work?
They are protected by laws, they aren't slave labor. Great thought, not going to happen.
People are hungry because they choose to be. We all live by choices we make.
Not as long as the gooberment keeps handing out passes to the free food club. I talk gardening to everyone, kinda like breathing, "Oh, Uh..... well.... I'm tired after I get off work"--which is lazy speak for I'd rather watch TV. These same people gladly take food stamps and use them to purchase pre-packaged processed foods that are ready to eat in 90 microwaved seconds.I think that a victory garden renaissance is needed and possible
Year from now, no excuses because you'll have more room than energy to garden.Not as long as the gooberment keeps handing out passes to the free food club. I talk gardening to everyone, kinda like breathing, "Oh, Uh..... well.... I'm tired after I get off work"--which is lazy speak for I'd rather watch TV. These same people gladly take food stamps and use them to purchase pre-packaged processed foods that are ready to eat in 90 microwaved seconds.
On the lawn and yard idea, I garden in my front yard because of shade issues, big dog issues and chicken issues in the back yard. I use the strip between the sidewalk and driveway, used-to-be-flower-beds, a strip on the other side of the driveway and a couple of beds on the other side of the yard. People actually stop and ask me gardening questions. I converted the mail lady and gave her seeds. She is in her second year of gardening. I give seeds, advice and sweet potato slips to what I refer to as my curbside gardening friends. I have my eye on that shrinking patch in the center of the front yard........but DH says NO!
Seedcorn, I can take it out of Granny gear into high gear and git 'er done!Year from now, no excuses because you'll have more room than energy to garden.