There are three kinds of people in this world. The first are the righteous and pure of heart. They go to college, get a good career, buy a sensible house and keep their lawns perfectly manicured. They drive nice cars, and fill their house with matching furniture that look nice with their magazine perfect kitchens. They buy the latest and greatest products and make sure there is a constant flow of money filling the pockets of the big wig corporate boo-zhwas who rule the world. These are the good people.
(Photo is some random pic off the internet advertising wholesome lawn fertilizer)
Then there are the people who object to being supported by government agencies, they defy all that is good and strive to live a life that gives as little money as possible to the all holy Federation of Booze zhwas that want to own the world. These people do not support the economy. They destroy perfectly good lawns and dig them up and plant food!
Do you see this guy? He’s got this website http://www.growingyourgreeens.com. He has dug up his grass in suburbia and is growing vegetables that he actually eats.
And these people in Pasadena, California on a city block have a complete farm where they grow all the food they eat, and give almost no money whatsoever to the economy.
It’s sick and disturbing. These people even have goats, and I hear that they put goat poo all over the garden. This is so wrong. They eat from that garden and they’ve got chickens running all over it. That is so not kosher.
There are people who have gone so far with this tree hugging hippie idea, that they have developed a way to plant something called a food forest that creates an entire eco system that a person can live in and be completely self sufficient. This is bad. It doesn’t help the economy grow, and is frowned upon in our society because it’s messy and dirty, and completely un-American. A garden militia in Seattle completely destroyed a nice meadow and planted a massive forest of food and they are going to just let whoever feels like it walk around and eat berries like it’s some magical land of plenty.
This is serious. This is an outrage and it’s got completely out of hand.
There’s a group of crazies now that call themselves gorilla gardener’s. They go around planting things on other people’s property. They do this in secret, without even asking permission. I mean seriously! What is the world coming to?
Then there are those who are neither here nor there. They don’t care about economics or earth day and they just want to be left alone. Well, that’s just ugly.










laughing.. which are you ?
Oh, I’m bad and I know it.
If you grow the economy, you give the government more taxes, more taxes means they have to fin more ways to spend it. So poke them with a home grown carrot, and say it’s a new day.
You have to put more money into the economy in order to grow it, but they don’t have to have all the money at once. If you are self sufficient, you can make your money last a very very long time and you can have a more comfortable stress free life without having to make as much money.
Dear Mrs. Jam Cracker,
For writing this post you should be charged with treason.
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(The author of this comment has a web log on economics at https://economics102.wordpress.com/)
Dear Mr. Smart guy who understands economics,
Yes, indeed, I am evil. But hey, we can’t all be perfect.
Clotilda
Oh this is SO hysterical. I admire your creative mind and wish I could add such cleverness to my own blog!
Nice!
Treason? Surely you jest.
You know me all to well. Lol.
Self-reliance/independence used to be the American way. A lot of people (at least in the rural areas where I live/have lived) have quietly kept it up, taught it to their children so they could teach their children, while the rest of the country became more of a dependent society. I think it’s just coming back into ‘vogue’ now. For the people I know it has always had more to do with a moral philosophy (that people should do whatever they can to provide for themselves, help out their neighbors and leave the world a better place) than a political statement (stick it to somebody good), although the two seem to intertwine these days. Strange bedfellows, so to speak.
I don’t begrudge how people spend their own money as long as they don’t interfere with what I do with mine. To each their own.
Yes, it does take all sorts of people to make the world go round.
If only fools rescue the tyrants that devour them, then I know a lot of fools and tyrants. Sometimes they’re called patriots.
Sounds like treason to me. But, what a way to go!
I’m ugly…
Your dog is pretty cute, though.
Nice! I dig up my yard, plant stuff, and it doesn’t yield. I should go to my big front yard slope that gets full sun and turn it into a garden. The HOA would absolutely love for it.
People who do this in my city get fined. Seriously. It happened to the woman who writes the garden column in our local newspaper. She planted too close to the parkway.
You are my all-time FAVE-O-RITE, girlie! — YUR
I couldn’t find anything about the fine, but here is Shawna’s site — http://shawnacoronado.com/
As always…excellent!
Can’t we all just get along?? Hysterical as usual
I won’t be trying it with veg, but I intend to made flower seed-bombs for next spring. Seeds, mud, and out the window of the car or tossed over the hedge on a walk
but I have a black thumb of death
can’t even keep a cactus alive.
Very clever!
Ha! I felt you said, “Gotcha” at the end. Very cleverly written. Loved it and the humor you put into your writing. Following along and enjoying it all.
W.
gorilla gardening is fun
Funny, light, clever and delightful. You must be a fun and uplifting person to be around!
Guilty, I am so guilty but at least I haven’t sunk to gorilla gardening.
I now want to be a gorilla Gardner!
people in my country, Indonesia, plant their backyard vegetables and fruits. But we still go to shop
That is so awesome to grow your own food. Is the climate in Indonesia tropical? It seems like it would be easier to grow things there without having to see your pepper plants die every winter. Can you grow mangos and avacados there?
yes, the climate is tropical
Commonly people grow mangos or avocados in front of their house. Some grow bananas, pommegranates, or guavas. There are no winter, we just have rainy season and summer.
Sometimes live in a tropical country is so boring,
cleverest irony, so subtle I’m not even sure it is…
more power to your awesome blog!
omigod. omigod omigod omigod. Oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t.
I give away the pumpkins from my garden every year. I…I…I donate fruit from my trees to the local food bank. Look, if the men in trench coats come and I suddenly disappear…tell my kids I love them, and that I really did exist.
Have gardened for years…has it made me independent? not much…..but the gophers, snails, tomato worms, squirrels, grasshoppers, rabbits, javalina etc. love me….;)
I have seriously considered growing a garden in my front yard. Keep in mind I am in a subdivision, but who cares. I love that idea.
lol – me likee
If you’ll pardon my pedantry, shouldn’t it be guerilla gardeners?
Okay, Mrs. Jamcracker, I see now.
catching up on your latest posts. They always put a smile on my face. Thanks.
Hey, I live in Seattle. I’m used to the hippies, the greens, the collectivists, the utopians etc.
Can the gorilla gardeners come to my house??!!?? That sure would help me out! LOL!
Can the gorilla gardeners come to my house??!!?? That sure would help me out! LOL! Guerrilla”
Gardeners” unless they really are gorillas
I think it’s best that I don’t comment on this one. Lol! I think that anything I say would not be taken well by some side.
Scott
(Did I mention that I cannot garden and have to live off disability from the government?)
A nice, witty and informative post, Clotilda. I have long been a dabbler in gardening, and am currently sharing my produce (about 50:50) with my moles, hedgehogs, blackbirds, pigeons, slugs and greenfly. Does that make me good?
Being as self sufficient as possible is a good thing but, so long as we live in society we depend upon the services provided by society weather we realize it or not or like it or not. Depending on services carries an obligation to contribute to those services, like it or not.
Your posts are absolutely great!!! I live in Jordan where there is a shortage of water and not very good soil, so planting is not exactly an option for me now, but it is something I’ll keep in mind.
This was funny with grains of truth!! Although I think I fall in the “betweeners”. I love beauty, being sensible, decreasing the toxic load, compost, recycle what ever we can, collect water and grow lots in the summer…BUT I have a gas hogging truck, respect authority but HATE politics and immature greedy leadership and match lots of things in my house