People. This week has threatened to be my undoing. But I got to shop ’til I dropped yesterday at the Brimfield Fair with friends, which helped.
If that weren’t enough, I discovered the lovely SoundCloud service I’ve been using to bring you these podcasts on my site isn’t free like I thought-which is convenient, since I have so much time now to find an alternative. With that, I give you my latest podcast, but this time I’m sending you directly over to Fine Gardening’s site to listen to it. If you’re a Gen X/Y gardener like me, this one, with guests Amanda Thomsen and Kelly Norris, is for you.
I listened to this last week, yo. I am with you as being a gardener in the middle of the X/Y generation gap. I always figured people started gardening after 1. getting land; 2. having kids/dogs; 3. remodeling their house. As for myself I said screw it and started a garden in a small empty flowerbed outside of my apartment’s front door in college.
That being said, I do wish there were more of us in plant societies. I’m sick of being the token young person at all of those. I know the old-timers are eyeing me to take over cabinet duties eventually.
Awaiting part 2.
Thoroughly enjoyed it and the recent AT article on a similar topic. Inspired me to write my thoughts here: http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2012/05/gardening-gen-x-y.html
Hi Felicia - I noticed your post when Amanda posted it on FB-that’s awesome! I’m going to repost it, but every time I had a minute, it was during FB “off hours,” and I wanted to be sure to put it out there when people would see it. (Thanks for the friend request too!)
@Susan - I always figured the same thing, and I could hardly ever bring myself to garden in places I knew I wouldn’t live for more than a year or two. It just wasn’t worth the time and effort then. I’ve never engaged any of the plant societies, but now that you mention it, the only plant society person I can think of I actually chanced to meet in person was a guy from a local cacti/succulents society, and he was our age. I wonder if the weirder, more oddball (i.e. more interesting) plant societies skew younger earlier? What plant societies are you in?
I’m a card carrying member of the local orchid and native plant societies. (In full disclosure, I showed up early to a meeting for the native plant society and ended up getting a local cabinet position. Lesson learned.) I’m also a member of the American Penstemon Society, but I haven’t got to one of the national meetings yet as they are always held in Oregon. From what I understand, most of these societies skew towards the older population.