The Giving Gardener: Growing for others

Pea starts at Marra Farm

The Lettuce Link has staff started a regular feature on the Solid Ground blog, offering advice about cultivating your own food and growing for others.

Growing food for yourself, for friends, family and especially to donate to strangers is at once an act of kindness and self-indulgent. Yes, self-indulgent, because growing food involves connecting with the senses when so often in our busy, urban lives we live hurried, stressed and detached.  

Click here to read the rest of Michelle's musings on planting peas, dirt under the fingernails, and preparing for spring.