Read at :
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/food-voices-urban-gardening-is-hip/
Food Voices: Urban Gardening Is Hip
By Andrianna Natsoulas
https://www.whyhunger.org/news-and-alerts/why-reporter/1129-food-voices-urban-gardening-is-hip.html
First installment in a series.
In 2008, William Gardener started gardening in his backyard in Detroit, Michigan. He now has a total of 1.4 acres. At the Edgeton Community Garden in Detroit, he grows a variety of fruits, herbs and vegetables; keeps bees; and, raises egg laying chickens, meat producing chickens, and ducks. And he plans on expanding.
“I’m trying to show that it is hip, it is cool to do this and you don’t have to change your lifestyle too much, but work a lot harder. I definitely know my kids are going to benefit from this experience and the neighborhood kids who see this going on. I know they are going to benefit because I have benefited so much from just doing it. I’m loving it.
People will get more interested over the years. It’s not going to happen overnight, and I knew that, but that’s what a lot of people look for – that instant gratification. Next year, there’s going to be a thousand people out here. Well, no it’s not like that because people would rather go to Randazzles and go to these other shops and not garden. Why get all dirty when you can go to the store and get it all fresh and looking clean? But it’s tasteless.
It’s a process we have to go through and I have to show them that it takes hard work and the benefits of it.
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