Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The problem with Superstruct and victory gardens.

Ruud Dirven has written an excellent essay on why victory gardens won't feed all of us.

Read it. I plan to respond to it sometime in the next few days, with my own essay, and it would help if you've read it. It's a good challenge on it's own as well, though, and it should remind you what Ravenous is all about. It's not about making sure you have food. It's about all the chaos that happens when large sections of the world don't get food. This is what I realized when my garden first got raided by those young boys, and which became even more obvious when the community garden was threatened. This is bigger than making sure I have food. This should be a game changer for Ravenous.

Ruud initially posted much of this as a discussion called Why I feel the way I do about decentralized gardening (longer), and any raves, badges, or props should go his way. I'm merely providing this so that he can format his thoughts in a better way to be read, and to make sure that anyone who reads this also reads that.

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