#1*

Reason to use agriculture as a community organizing tool #1*
It is a great common ground for people.  Last night we ran a neighborhood work day at a Soup Kitchen garden.  Folks were there to work and to learn about how to get their garden ready for bed and plant garlic.  There were people of a large variety of ages, races, genders and backgrounds.  The sort of people that you would think might not have much in common, but for all of them they have gardens in common (and probably more that they don't realize).  But we were all talking like old friends in no time about worms and soil and compost and the finer points of mulching and how you cook Crowder Peas and what the best place in the garden to plant garlic might be.


* I sense a series, we'll see if it develops