I was out there in the garden, picking delicata and pattypan squashes, lemon cucumbers, fistfuls of herbs, and, of course, my favorite greens (I'll try to go a whole post without mentioning them!) and I got to thinking about my new friends in Australia again. It is winter there and they have somehow found me because, of course, gardeners never stop planting seeds, either in the ground or in their imaginations, and what better way to feed the soul in the dead of winter than to see what others are doing elsewhere. I know now that it can be whatever season I want it to be, if even only for a few moments each day, when I connect with other gardeners around the world.
And here's a great way to do it. Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) is a nonprofit organization founded in Maine, with friends from around the world. Its mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food systems. In doing so, KGI seeks to connect, serve, and expand the global community of people who grow some of their own food.
In additional to connecting globally, KGI invites you to connect locally by starting a "gPod" of local gardeners in your area. It even gives you handy resources including a How to Start a KGI gPod guide and a flyer for posting in local supermarkets and on other public bulletin boards.
I'm sort of tempted to start a gPod, maybe even just in my neighborhood. There's that house at the top of the hill that always has sunflowers and tomatoes, and what about that other one that has a pretty wooden fence around a designated plot in the backyard, with a cute blue and white garden shed. I've seen some raised beds on the road I take to get to the highway, and there's even one house that has sprawling watermelon vines all over a patch of land sort of hidden in the front yard. Who are these people? And, more importantly, why don't I know them?
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