A Green Thumbed Guest Post

I GARDEN…

by Ryan

(aka Star of the Week IV)

I garden

for the oxygen, VitaminD, and the scary CO2

I garden

for the sun-cause I'm as pale as the moon

I garden

for the flowers-

their beauty and their smell...

I garden for the showers-

they bring beauty as well.

I garden

in hopes of seeing an assassin bug...

and if I see him near my plants-

I'll give him a big 'ol assassin hug.

I garden for the worms

butterflies, birds and bees

 I garden for the storms.

Have you ever heard the trees?

I garden

let's just say-for the topsoil's sake.

A couple thousand years to make-

and just a hundred to take.

I garden

because we once had the richest

soil on the planet.

It's become our largest export-

yet we take it for granted.

I garden

for erosion-

and the floods that always follow.

 the disastrous disappearance of our dirt -

is definitely a difficult pill to swallow.

I garden

for the runoff

in this mono-crop monopoly.

The soil is dead!!!

We should be growing beets and broccoli-

what's the product instead?

Nitrogen goes

from a field, to streams

and it might just flow

near the Field of Dreams.

I garden for red fig tomatoes

and Green Zebra toMOTToes-

don't forget the blue potatoes...

eat the RAINBOW's my motto.

I garden 

because I'm a rebel

I say "steph" the system-

I'll take a shovel and some seeds

and hope I'm blessed with wisdom.

I garden

because I'm gangsta-

and that's what gangsta's do.

Much love goes out to Coolio...

And my gangsta boo

She most "stephinitely" loves me

partly thanks ta you.

I garden 

Due to the books, magazines and movies I've watched.

Food Matters really matters, so does The Future of Food

if we could all see Food Inc. and  King Corn-

man the future'd be good.

I garden

because of The Survival Podcast,

Mother Earth News

and the Power Hour Crew-

The Easy Organic Gardener

Paul Parent, Bill Mollison, Masanobu Fukuoka & John Jeavons...

just to name a few.

I garden

in my greenhouse

although I wish it were blue-

I just got a  bigger greenhouse-

wishes really do come true.

I garden

for the kids

and the memories they'll take

I garden to stay a kid-

that part's a piece of cake.

 

I garden

for the roses-

mine barely have thorns.

I garden for my hat-

although it barely got worn.

I garden for my cat-

she likes my barley and corn-

I gardened for my fat-

And then the abs were born.

I garden

for James-

he can't wait for carrot duty...

for Natalie-

Gardens never have an excess of beauty...

for Isabel-

She's my comic and my cutie...

for Stephanie-

And her weed-pullin' booty!

I garden for myself-

I deserve it.

Go ahead and accuse me-

I garden for you and I garden for my neighbors

I garden for the Earth-it's my duty.

I garden

because it's easy

I garden

because it's hard

I garden

because grass is such a silly thing-

for a beast of a backyard.

I garden

for prevention

and to combat a hellish agriculture system that  contributes to:

diabetes, obesity, cancer, depression, topsoil and ecosystem destruction and so much more.

I garden

to oppose that system

to set an example for more

to remember our history

and the future we’ve yet to explore.







Why do YOU garden?

or maybe more importantly for some-

Why AREN'T you gardening yet?

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Gardening is civil and social,
but it wants the vigor and freedom
of the forest and the outlaw. 
~Henry David Thoreau