The Backyard Garden Revolution on 60 Minutes

I just read this in one of my favorite blogs, Life after the Oil Crash and felt a surge of pride that one of my New Year's predictions had made a major media vehicle, 60 minutes, no less. Yeah, yeah, I know, this is a no brainer. When the economy is this bad folks have got to pull all the panties they got and bunch em together. Besides, Michelle O and her Whitehouse organic garden deserves the lion's share of the credit for getting people back out into the earth and getting in touch with their spirits. There is much more to gardening than some fresh salad greens in a bowl and a steamed side dish of crisp Kentucky pole beans.
For me, creating the rich soil and then digging it up and turning it over gives me a rich sense of connectedness and accomplishment. When I see all of those fat earthworms wiggling around, dashing back into those dark depths of black, wet earth, I know I have done something life giving and profound. Harvesting vegetables and then walking them to the sink to clean and slice and throw in a pot of steaming water, to serve to husband and boys makes me feel as if everything is perfection in my universe. It is unlike any spiritual path I have ever taken in that it is so tangible and immediate. I do believe if everyone was growing as little as a window box of kitchen herbs, the rate of pharmaceutical addictions would start to take a cliff dive. How much more basic and life sustainable is growing a simple garden?
"Doctor I need some antidpressants- Can you write me up a prescription for three months supply of "Seeds of Change" please, Doc! Hurry, Summer is half over."