I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

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It's time to show some of the harvest:

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excerpt from current reading: one

This is taken from The Revolution will not be Microwaved, in which I am currently engrossed.

In the 1990's Mayor Rudolph Guiliani implemented a wholesale transfer of hundreds of city-owned lots with gardens on them to the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which arranged to put 112 of them up for auction at once in the spring of 1999. When asked why the city was auctioning the gardens, the mayor responded "This is a free-market economy; welcome to the era after communism." The idea that the city would encourage permanent community-based gardening on its unused land was regarded as absurd and contrary to the laws of the market. Privatization of all resources is the "free-market" creed. "We are trying to privatize as many city-owned properties as we can," confirmed an HPD official.

Bette Midler stepped in, in the eleventh hour, to purchase the gardens and preserve these green spaces, creating the now famous New York Restoration Project. The author of Revolution, Sandor Ellix Katz, asserts (and I agree) that private persons and industry should not be solely responsible for acquiring and maintaining spaces that are meant for the good of the public.

can this be rectified?

I bought the majority of my organic seeds this year from the Seeds of Change catalog. There is no indication, on their website, in the catalog, on their food products, that they are in fact owned by M&M/Mars. Technically, its through their subsidiary Masterfoods USA. It is an understatement to say that I am currently beside myself, furious that I have unintentionally bought into a major corporation when I thought that I was creating something entirely out of the hands of industrialized America. Of course there are numerous other seed companies that are unaffiliated with the web of organic profiteering, and next year when I purchase seed I will be sure to research the company thoroughly and consult this useful guide. As a disclaimer, I am not sure if Masterfoods participates in disagreeable business practices and my condemnation warrants further research but I can' t shake this feeling of disappointment and a little shame for being so gullible.

approaching harvest

Well, that's not entirely true. We have picked some red tomatoes, which are more mealy and bland than I had expected, but I suspect they are a sauce variety. The seeds came from a tomato that I was eating when taking a break from establishing packaged seeds. I cut into the fruit and noticed that some of the seeds had little green shoots so I cleaned them off and planted them and they quickly developed into great plants. since I'm still learning about the nuances of agricultural technology, I may be incorrect in saying that this means that the mother tomato was not a hybrid or genetically engineered, but in this case I'm going to assume it's so. Regardless of the slight graininess, they are sweet and taste like the fruit of labor.

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