Did You Know?

Gardening is America’s No. 1 hobby, involving more than 90 million U.S. households.
Americans spend more than $3 billion a year on flower gardening and more than $1 billion on vegetable gardening, according to the National Gardening Association.
“Local food”—the kind you grow yourself—is “all the rage,” according to The New York Times: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/l/local_food/index.html.
Environmentally-sensitive citizens—including the First Family gardeners at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—are growing their own to reduce pressure on fossil fuel and farmlands.
Food now travels more than 1,000 miles before ending up on our plates.
The Oxford American Dictionary 2007 Word of the Year was “locavore,” a new term to describe a growing movement of people who believe in consuming only foods grown within 100 miles of home.
The flavor of vine-ripened produce far exceeds that of commercial fruits and vegetables picked long before maturity in order to ripen in transit.
Because of just-in-time inventory practices, modern supermarkets stock only about three days worth of food at any one time—leaving local communities potentially vulnerable to shortages in times of severe emergency.
Large-scale modern agri-business only became possible with the ready availability of cheap hydrocarbons with which to produce nitrate-based fertilizers, a relatively new phenomenon that may not last long-term.
Economists predict serious long-term escalation in food costs due to rising fuel costs, the conversion of farmland to grain-fuel production and other factors.

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