Some people are born to work the soil, others are not.
For me, I could forget the world and see the promise that is in every seed.
Maybe we can interest more people into teaching the young to garden.
But to even suggest it, gets us lumped in with the tree sitters and that does no good.
I Think of Jeanette, who was staying with me in her 9th year, I had taken her to the doctor and not the other kids, so I suggested we stop at the nursery, she pitched a fit, but I stopped anyway.
As we were leaving she said to me “Aunt Ruth, I will go to the nursery with you anytime, I thought you were going to take me to nursery school”, so for one young lady, for an hour, there was another world, outside her own.
I can’t imagine living in town.
I couldn't go back to city living. when I was a teenager I couldn't wait for the day I could move out of the city, everyone (including myself) figured I'd outgrow that mindset fairly quickly after I moved to Delaware in 1982 when I was 22. I never did outgrow that idea and it got to the point that even Dover, DE became too "big city" for me.
I wouldn't trade having grown up in NYC for anything, but that is not how I want our daughter to grow up. Thankfully my husband is as "big city" averse as I am.
Me either. Except for the short time we lived in Austin city limits, we have always lived in the country. We moved to Red Rock to get out of Austin. The city life is just not for us.