Gen Y, continued
Garden Variety has been the spot for a lively debate between Boomer gardeners and Gen Y gardeners of late.
Now Fern Richardson, blogger at Life on the Balcony, has put out the call for Gen Yers and Gen Xers to take her gardening survey. When she gets 200 responders, she will publish the results.
Fern (yes, that is her real name) lives in an urban apartment in Southern California with her husband and four cats. She has a law degree and a design degree but doesn't do either!
Take Fern's survey, young gardeners. It is only 10 questions. Maybe we will all have a better idea of what we are talking about.
Comments
yeah fern ! I am personally tired of all the dithering by my older colleagues. I don't think that younger (Gen x/y) people are any less interested than our elders were at our stage of life (in fact they may be even more interested). I find it off putting to have so many preconceived notions about what I am or am not doing being made based on age. It is ridiculous to be compared to someones 29 year old nephew - Gen x and y are as diverse as any other group. this whole line of discussion, where the presumption is that somehow younger gardeners are different - just because we are younger, is, I think quite detrimental to the cause of championing the subject of gardening in general.
I look forward to fern's results. I have taken her survey and it seems a good start at being logical and based in fact.
Posted by: rochelle | October 7, 2009 1:47 PM