| Home gardening is a very Green activity, and is | | | | gardening, could be Thailand, that depends mainly on |
| extremely good for the environment helping reducing | | | | agriculture, Slovenia and Poland, both exporters to |
| pollution levels in many communities. It is also a way | | | | the EU. Whilst flower gardens are turned into |
| to save money, and eat healthier food. | | | | vegetable, and fruit patches, and homeowners buy |
| Economically speaking the resurgence of home | | | | chickens, rather than purchase eggs from our |
| farming could affect producers of food, that | | | | supermarkets. |
| traditionally supplied more wealthier householders with | | | | Being green out of economic necessity, is a trend we |
| their fruit and vegetables. Many of these products | | | | all may have to face in the future, as land may start |
| were imported from developing Countries, or in the | | | | to become scarcer because of rising sea levels, and |
| case of Europe, new poorer members of the | | | | our awareness of eating more healthy food, turns us |
| European Union. | | | | away from more unhealthier factory farming produce. |
| There is no doubt that home gardening makes sense, | | | | However, like everything in this age of globalization, |
| we were dependent on factory farms that often | | | | others were co-dependent on us for purchasing their |
| used pesticides that were possibly linked to illnesses | | | | food. And the big companies that produced the |
| in many western Countries. Some of the products | | | | vegetables, eggs and poultry for us, are probably |
| we ate, were part of the Globalization of agriculture, | | | | laying off workers, and reconsidering were they can |
| including importing poultry from Thailand. | | | | find new markets, to a new generation of home |
| Countries that may be hit by the new trend of home | | | | gardeners. |