Looking at Front Lawn Gardens Today

Looking at my front lawn garden today there is not much to see. But if you look at the rain garden behind it you sense what a year can bring. A year ago the perennial rain garden did not even exist. So hopefully by this late summer and certainly by next year I hope the annual front lawn garden of food and flowers can be as full as the rain garden is now.

In my life I find there are two ways to look forward to the future. One is from the past and one is from the present. From the past the future often does not look so good and certainly does not offer any surprises. Looking to the future from the present, the present is full of hope and the unexpected. Also looking from the past it seems that we can never catch up with the present let alone with the future; while looking deep into the present we can discover the next step to the future.

Victory gardens growing and eating organic food is the ‘in’ thing these days. Looking at the future of this food movement from the past, it has happened before and become something for the elite or well off. Looking at this present movement from the present there is the real possibility that we can extend it this time to all persons and make possible Growing Renewable Affordable Food (G.R.A.F.).

Using worm castings for organic growing, using A.I.R. as insulation and even growing and eating organic food are not something new. They have been around for thousands of years and are natural to nature. We’ve just rediscovered them in recent years. They will come and go again and again unless we learn from the present and on the present build the future.

“There is nothing new under the sun” but in the present we can create the future.

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