A NEW SPIN ON FARMING

It can't be any surprise to you at this point that the reported trend in gardening is FOOD. I say reported because who can ever say for sure whether the media is leading the consumer, the marketers are leading the media, or the consumer is leading the charge.

However, the resources have been out there long before the headlines. Consider the prescient Heather Flores who wrote FOOD NOT LAWNS in 2006. (She lives here in Oregon, anyone know her?).

Even I - the non-foodie - am thinking of replacing my "hell strip" (so named by my colleague Lauren Springer Ogden) with blueberry bushes, though mostly because I don't have time to redesign it with groovy ornamentals after recently ripping out all the groundcovering Robb's euphorbia.

So back to the headline all you "Citizen-Farmers!" Check out Spin Farming brought to my attention by new blog follower Sarah Spitz from KCRW Santa Monica, a woman who would really rather be gardening. And no, that is not Sarah. That's a spinner.