Sustainability has many definitions and approaches. But I feel in order for the global world to be sustainable, we individually need to take steps in being sustainable. Sustainability as a whole cannot thrive without personal change. One important change is growing your own garden.
From freedomgardens.org,
Presently we are faced with a future that will be fraught with fuel scarcity, rising food cost and environmental implications. As the world encounters hard times – there will be need for practical and back to basics solutions.
Freedom Gardens is growing beyond victory garden a food security movement person to person, blog to blog, neighbor to neighbor. Whether you have a balcony garden, community garden or your own backyard garden this new online social networking community is where you can gather, grow and share.
Fuel prices keep increasing, which in turn causes food prices to increase resulting from higher transportation costs. With a weakened economy, eventually these costs with catch up with us and cause an increase in food security issues on a personal level.
Somehow along the way many of us have lost the connection with the land.
