My Edible, Organic, soon-to-be Garden

Okay so first of all, my blog like disappeared or something. If you click on the link on the court website it's still there but when I log into my blog account it is not on my dashboard--so this is free speech part 2!!

Anyway. Onto other things. In order to graduate I had to finish one more URL this semester, which was democratic participation--and I'm taking SBS 350 Domination and Resistance-it's an awesome class and I've already talked about it on my first blog. But in the class we have to do a political project. Professor Shenk had us do a paper defining what politics means to us, and then today we had to present our proposal on our poltical project. My political project will be starting and growing an edible, organic garden in my backyard. I think it's funny because it's totally inspired by Dave's class from last semester--it was service learning but in class we talked about sustainability as a social movement. At the very end of the semester Lisa, another student in the class, was talking about a book she read about gardening being a political action. At first I was confused by it, but when I started to think about it I totally agreed. Having your own garden means that you know where your food is coming from and what gets put in it. I don't trust a lot of food that is being sold these days, especially because it seems like the almighty dollar seems to be more important. High fructose corn syrup is bad for people!! No matter which way you slice it, it is unhealthy for people, yet we make no effort to reduce the amount of it in items we eat and drink every day. To me, it just seems that obesity, diabetes, and other health problems are just running rampant today and I think it has a lot to do with what we think is okay to eat from the store. Most people don't know about the antiobiotics and hormones in food, and if they do know about it then they may not know WHY that is bad to have. In general, I think we all need to get a bit more local-know where your food is coming from. So yeah-I'm way excited to start this garden--any gardening tips would be helpful since i really have no clue how to do it!!!