“There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to grow healthy, delicious food; spend time outdoors feeling more alive than your desk job allows; help save the planet; find relaxation, solace, or healing; meet your neighbors; get your hands in the sweet earth; or discover for yourself just how abundant and generous nature can be—a garden rarely disappoints. It’s a magnet for life in all its quirky, beautiful forms.” NatureHealthGardenEnvironmentalism Book:Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West Source: Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West
“My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way.” GardeningPhiladelphiaBoulderVolkswagon Bug Book:Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West Source: Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West