Recently, a widely known gardener who has an excellent gardening blog wrote a post saying that she had received an assignment to write an editorial for the magazine entitled Washington Home and Garden. In her post this gardener invited suggestions, comments, and ideas from her readers on topics that "they" would write regarding for a magazine with an "upscale suburban readership." The following represents my comments to this post.
Congratulations. Since selection is the spice of life, I'm going to write down from an entirely totally different perspective than the views articulated by your different commenters (who, by the manner, created some glorious suggestions and comments) :-)
The Gardening Imagination
I'm very involved that bound rock solid, healthy, meaningful, productive, rewarding, and therapeutic activities such as gardening are dying a slow death. Let me explain. Right currently in our country there are millions upon voluminous people who have gardens. Thousands of those individuals will venture out-of-state to visit alternative well-known gardens and countless others can go online everyday to read regarding gardening. These individuals have what I decision "the gardening imagination." These are the individuals who have been bitten by the "gardening bug."
With such a vibrant gardening "base," you may ask, where's the proof that gardening is dying a slow death? Please continue reading for the answer to the present question.
The Want To Involve Yourself in Gardening
Something, together with gardening, desires to be passed on to future generations if it is to survive and prosper. I recently read a blog post concerning a farmer/gardener who is in his 50s or 60s and who fondly remembers getting concerned in gardening at seven or eight years old because he "wished to garden badly."
Will anyone out there get ANY indication, with extremely few exceptions, that the youth of today want to "garden badly"? My sense is that the vast majority of today's young folks don't wish to try to to a lot of of "anything" badly except drive around with their friends, watch TV, party with their friends, hear music on their iPods, talk on their cell phones for hours with their friends, play online games, and "hang" with their friends.
The Blind Leading the Blind
Perhaps I am missing one thing here but what in the planet is thus "special" regarding doing completely nothing that may be referred to as productive or meaningful together with your friends? To me, this is often just an extreme example of the "blind leading the blind." The result: many, if not most of our young folks are staying removed from healthy, outside physical activities (like gardening) just like the way they would avoid the plague. Let me state the apparent: this is often NOT progress, this is NOT healthy, and this is often NOT creating a meaningful contribution to society. It's, however, to use a gardening term, a great example of "horse manure."
The Want for Gardening Education
Perhaps you can address the points created higher than with a post on your blog or with a piece in a magazine. The reality of true, however, is this: if the "older" generation does not build a gigantic effort to show nowadays's youth concerning gardens and gardening, then nowadays's young individuals will NEVER discover the magic concerning operating with their hands in the soil and they will NEVER feel and experience the special "affiliation with the planet" that's intrinsic to gardening. Briefly, while not such an in depth instructional effort, the "magic of the garden" will have lost its attractiveness with our youth. And when this happens, there will be no opening for a "garden author" at Washington Home and Garden or anywhere else.
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Dorish Hill has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in Gardening, you can also check out his latest website about:
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