Homegrown
It's one thing to buy only locally grown food, as per Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon's
100-mile food dietor Barbara Kingsolver's memoir,
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. But the next generation of trendsetters is taking the concept to its logical extreme via window-ledge herb gardens, rooftop chicken coops, or backyard apiaries. The percentage of households growing at least some of their own food is up 24 percent since 2007, according to the National Gardening Association. And many of those gardens are in the big cities—witness New Yorker Manny Howard's
My Empire of Dirt.
