have you heard of ah I think “green zones” is the term? There’s a local ah conservationist (fairly right wing type) who’s always talking about how urban sprawl should be interrupted by green zones of either farmland/gardens or wild areas. I like the idea.
//Parkland and gardens make cityscapes more pleasant and calm people down. But can one be a city agrarian?
God bless,
Laurel //
‘An agrarian society is hardly one that has no use at all for industries, or professional vocations, for scholars and artists, and for the life of cities. Technically, perhaps, an agrarian society is one in which agriculture is the leading vocation, whether for wealth, for pleasure, or for prestige—a form of labor that is pursued with intelligence and leisure, and that becomes the model to which the other forms approach as well as they may.’ (page xlvii) I’ll Take My Stand—The South The Agrarian Tradition
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I have not heard the term green-zones. I am for basically the most power being in smaller government. So to have land which nobody can own is fine. Some of which ought to be sacred for our faith.
‘An agrarian society is hardly one that has no use at all for industries, or professional vocations, for scholars and artists, and for the life of cities. Technically, perhaps, an agrarian society is one in which agriculture is the leading vocation, whether for wealth, for pleasure, or for prestige—a form of labor that is pursued with intelligence and leisure, and that becomes the model to which the other forms approach as well as they may.’ (page xlvii) I’ll Take My Stand—The South The Agrarian Tradition
Good reference! (and one of the three or four hundred books I own that I will eventually read...)
I just noticed that the botanical garden was indoors. I’ve never seen such a thing. All the ones I’ve been too were outdoors. I can see advantages to both.
I just noticed that the botanical garden was indoors. I’ve never seen such a thing. All the ones I’ve been too were outdoors. I can see advantages to both.
The only major disadvantage of a greenhouse garden is the cost. However, it allows for greater control.
Greenhouses allow for the propagation of plants too delicate for outdoor growth in our climate(s); plants that are native to other locations and climates. Most of our indoor plants are not native to the US, and are propagated in greenhouses, then sold to those of us who do not immediately kill them with their brown thumbs (the brown thumb belongs to me). At least they hope so.
Many botanists and hobbyists in England and America grew exotic plants in greenhouses. Quite the Victorian thing to do.
It’s the cost of climate control for the Duke Gardens that is prompting some of this change. The other factors are eco-freakiness and distaste for the things Whites like.
