Gardening
* Learn how to plant, grow, and harvest vegetables.
* also creates opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy, and education
  - lowers stress and increases relaxation
* are art forms
  - farming
  - hobbies
* brings out the use of annuals and perennials.
* burns calories.
* can be a life-long skill
  - real bonding experience between neighbors
  - become a kind of disease
  - cause muscle strains and sprains, and lead to spasms in the back
  - play a big role in improving the quality of life
* craft that requires having a sense of both art and tradition.
* develops self-esteem, a sense of nurturing and the quality of generosity.
* engages all of our senses as well as our minds and imagination.
* enhances many aspects of a person's life including physical, mental, and social.
* enriches our lives, providing opportunities for education and food for the hungry.
* entails continuous and sometimes strenuous physical activity.
* family tradition.
* has nothing to do with academics.
* healthy recreational activity in which all can participate.
* helps children appreciate nature
  - develop in many ways
* hobby as evidenced by flowering plants and shrubs.
* human art that pleasure to learn and share.
* involves more than just growing healthy vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
* is about life and death, then and now, success and failure
  - all about means, about process, about working with the earth
* is also a great form of exercise
  - large part of being self-reliant
* is an activity that can transform time, space, and habitual reactions
  - feeds the mind
  - as much art as science, and there are many ways to do just about everything
  - both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure
  - done just to produce fruit or vegetables for the gardener's own family
  - food for the soul
  - great preventative medicine
  - often a family activity
* is one of the best foods for the soul
  - ways to put children in touch with nature
  - few hobbies that people of any age can enjoy
  - oldest healing arts
  - way for children to learn through meaningful activities
  - plant parenthood
  - popular because results are almost immediate, and the growing season is year round
  - related to farming
  - teamwork
* is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas
  - as the paint and the soil and sky as the canvas
  - best way to ensure that fruits, vegetables, and grains truly are organic
  - cultivating and growing of plant life
  - most common use of leisure time
* is the most popular hobby in America
  - the United States today
  - of both men and women
* is the number one hobby in the United States
  - leisure time activity in the United States
  - practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture
  - purest of human pleasures
  - slowest of the performing arts
  - therapy for the soul
* low-tech activity.
* major hobby in America.
* means different things to different people.
* non-violent activity that mothers can enjoy with their children.
* nurturing process.
* often presents obstacles to overcome, such as short growing seasons or arid soil.
* pastime that gives untold pleasure to millions of people all over the world.
* patience-building hobby.
* popular hobby in the Bitterroot Valley
  - pastime, especially among the retirees who have time for it
* project children can take charge of from start to finish.
* promotes physical fitness for adults and provides alternatives to crime among youths
  - strength and flexibility
* requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
* teaches many of the realities of nature and conservation through their use
  - patience and brings out the desire and with it the innate ability to nurture
  - responsibility and teamwork to youth caring for the garden
* transcends the boundaries of gender, race, age, and social status.
* visual as well as hands-on art.
* way of life
  - therapy and a means to release stress
+ Gardening, Gardening compared with farming: Home :: Leisure
  * Gardening is related to farming. But farming is done on a much larger scale. A farm may have hundreds of square kilometers of plants and crops. A garden in a person's backyard usually only measures a few square meters. As well, farming is done as a business, to sell the crops, fruit, and vegetables that are produced. Gardening is done just to produce fruit or vegetables for the gardener's own family.
  * Gardening is related to farming. But farming is done on a much larger scale. A farm may have hundreds of square kilometers of plants and crops. A garden in a person's backyard usually only measures a few square meters. As well, farming is done as a business, to sell the crops, fruit, and vegetables that are produced. Gardening is done just to produce fruit or vegetables for the gardener's own family. Gardening is done as a hobby or as a recreation, not as a business.