It's spring and I want to plant a garden. Not because it's the cool thing everyone's doing this year, but because I miss those spring and summer days of my youth, out in the garden, in the dirt, being productive and a tiny bit self-sufficient.
The problem is that I live in a very densely populated urban area. There are community gardens and p-patches, and those are cool, but they're also pretty scarce. I noticed two guys planting a garden between the sidewalk and the street, right where the bums drink their 40's and probably piss. That's not healthy.
So I had an idea:
Old people have land, but weak bodies and questionable minds. Young people have able bodies and sharp minds, but no land. Why don't young people ask old people if they can tend their gardens? For free. This is a win-win: Old people's land will be maintained without them having to pay begrudging grandkids a fist-full of quarters to do it, and young people will have the satisfaction of working in the dirt to grow sustainable produce. They can even share it with the old people!
This would also bridge a social gap between otherwise unassociated generations!
I would start an online community in which able-bodied youngsters could pair up with decrepit oldies, if only old people used the internet (remember - questionable minds.)
So this pairing process needs work, but I think the overall idea is really great. Wanna help?
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