Why do you garden?

[hippywife]

For us, gardening isn't just about having the cleanest, freshest, tastiest, most nutritious food, altho that is definitely of prime importance. I got to thinking about this alot lately. I've been doing a whole lot of reading about sustainable agriculture, as well as alot about the unsustainable type. For us, growing our own food is also a political statement, a way to take pesticides, herbicides, petrochemical fertilizers, and diesel fuel out of our diet. To shorten the distance from where our food grows to the plate. It's also a hedge on the not so distant future when food shortages become a reality for many more in this country than it already has, many of whom have little or no practice at doing things for themselves.

So why do you garden?