Resident gardener Skip Brown, left, works with York Silver Bullet volunteer Pete Langkam of Penn Township on the garden plots adjacent to his home on East King Street in York. Brown said after buying a very expensive tomato at the grocery store recently, he wished his garden would grow faster.
Rising energy costs, climate change and improving standards of living in formally simpler countries are going to make food more expensive.
Corn ethanol funnels food into fuel exciting the speculation market, increasing the cost of all raw food like soy and wheat and those foods that simple food stock feeds like meat and dairy.
Personal and community gardens can take a bite out of food costs, provide a healthy food supply in the summer and doesn't need fuel to bring food to your door. A $2 tomato plant can yield many times that in produce thought the season.
It's just fun to watch things grow and have a tiny bit of control of your world.
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