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The New York Times reports today on high-rise vegetable gardening.
Not a couple of cherry tomato plants in windowboxes on the 31st floor.
This is much different.
There are very believable predictions that the Earth will soon have too many people to be fed from too little land.
In this essay, Dickson Despommier writes about vertical farming: Creating buildings that reach to the sky and take garden plots with them.
It is a fascinating concept.
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety. 
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