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The benefit to the environment is nonexistent. 99% of the benefit is an increased appreciation of how food is grown and the work it takes to do it right and how
by HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
The benefit to the environment is nonexistent. 99% of the benefit is an increased appreciation of how food is grown and the work it takes to do it right and how easily it all goes wrong.
- SECProto 4y agoThere are ways to do it right. In the suburban context (as long as you have decent soil and keep inputs out of it), whatever you grow is an improvement on grass or weeds. If you grow from seed, compost your own fruit and veg waste, maybe raise some chickens and use their manure - you can grow a lot of food from what would otherwise be unproductive space. I was just pointing out that that isn't what happens for most people.
- jxramos 4y agoThere is something that changes when you get into how much things can go wrong. I've been explaining to my kids that we're taking care of living things. And living things have their own clocks and times that draw us out of ourselves in the care of them. It's kind of hardened me up to reality somewhat after having watched so many seedlings not make it and watching others not thrive. I've become for lack of a better word more ruthless in cutting short plants that aren't going to produce. There's some kind of mental change that occurred I want to say over this process. I've lost patience for the straggler, for the stunted, for the sick. I think there was some unrealistic mush in me before that was rooted in a completely unreasonable expectation for how things work. It was a very startling discovery to say the least.