Community Gardeners in the Washington Post - all season long

Adrian Higgins' article in today's Washington Post brings some really exciting news.  In it he introduces us to the Glover Park Community Garden and to a few of its gardeners.  But the best part is that Higgins will be checking in with them via video every month throughout the season, so we'll be "Following a Growing Drama, with Many Plots".  The main characters are the wiseguy chairman of the garden, some young but experienced gardeners, and a total newbie.  Man, this is our kind of reality show - and how cool is that?

Higgins and the Post deserve a big rave from the Rant for this terrific idea.  Watch the first installment. 

Comments

[Ed Bruske]

I will be watching with great interest. Great to see the Post turning the latest technology on the local garden scene

[Michele Owens]

I was interested to see the stumbling conversation between Adrian and the young woman who'd never done a garden before about the process of garden-making. She really had no idea how to begin. That's the kind of thing for which a community garden is wonderful--there are old sages everywhere to tell you what to do first.

I was also amazed in Adrian's story by the cynicism from the Johnny's of Maine spokesperson, who suggested that once most Americans get a clue about the physical labor required by a vegetable garden, they will drop the idea. In my opinion, the exercise is the real draw of vegetable gardening. And you don't have to rip a garden out of sod with your bare hands. While I never use power equipment once a garden is made, God did invent it for a reason.