Gardening is Cool
Vegetable gardening is cool. Who knew?
Saturday, July 26, 2008
On Earth Day this year, Julia Roberts demonstrated composting on Oprah's TV show. Also recently, centenarian-tracking "Today Show" weather forecaster Willard Scott called on Americans to revive the victory gardens of the World War II era to enhance their food security. Finally, NASA has announced that astronauts on a future mission to Mars will grow their own vegetables in hydroponic gardens on board the spacecraft.
These seemingly unrelated events point to a trend that could have a tremendous impact on those of us in the gardening community: We have to prepare ourselves for the fact that we are about to become cool.
Because obviously, no one epitomizes cool like Willard Scott.
The new popularity of gardening may seem like a sudden development. But in fact, anyone who has been conscientious enough to monitor Google news alerts for funny gardening stories over the past few years, as I have, could see this trend coming.
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