Edd in Ky said: (quoted from post at 10:28:21 02/05/14) There are lots of vegetable gardens in the cities. Most of the comments here are from people that have never lived there.
The community were we lived outside Detroit had a community garden and everyone could have a plot and hundreds did, year after year. Many were older retirees that enjoyed their plot as a hobby, and a healthy one.
There are lots of lazy freeloading bums..in the city ...and in the country too. And there are lots of people that have a few tomato plants and some greens growing in their back yard. I also know lots of full time farmers that buy all their produce at the store.
Your idea is not a bad one, lots of community gardens are growing in urban areas like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Albany. But that does not match the locked-step viewpoint, so it must be wrong.
There are exceptions everywhere Edd. The point is, what percentage of the people, particularly the "poverty class" mentioned in the OP, offered the chance to grow their own by their own effort would actually do it? If you tell me more than 10-15% or less, then I will out and out call you a dreamer. The "poverty class" for the most part means the 50 million people on food stamps or 80 million on disability or, to be more blunt and accurate, the however many million on welfare in it's various forms. The working poor rarely qualify as poverty stricken in most studies I've seen. They often qualify as lower middle class based on gross income, and we all know what the difference between gross and take home is!
You can't compare retirees or sub-urban, "socially and environmentally conscious" soccer moms that take an interest in gardening in the same light as those qualifying as poverty stricken, and that was what the point was in the first place- that welfare mutts would never work to better themselves. Not very PC, but true.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 15:42:29 02/05/14.
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