Backyard Feast: Introducing home and locally grown food into your life
By Joshua McNichols, co-author of the Urban Farm Handbook
There are some among us who believe this local food obsession will die out when we all get jobs. The garden will go to seed when our free time disappears. We'll return to McDonald's when we can suddenly afford to. Bah! Did my grandfather, who lived through the depression, ever allow himself to spend more than a dollar on a cup of coffee? No! Over half a century later, he stubbornly remained in the car grumbling about highway robbery while my mom ran into Starbucks for a $4 latte. The lessons we learn in times of financial strife stick with us. Many of us began gardening because we were feeling thrifty. Others, for the taste. But whatever brought us to this place, many of us will stay. The memory of a backyard tomato does not fade. In fact, it expands in the mind, like an unstaked tomato plant in late summer.
