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Originally Posted by gorbelly
In my experience, people living in cities have a better idea of where their food comes from than people who live in the suburbs. I grew up in the suburbs, lived in big cities for 20 years and recently had to move to the suburbs. Way more people I knew in the city grew vegetables or supported local farms than people in the surburbs. Growing up, my family was basically the only family I knew that had a vegetable garden. Not a single neighbor we knew ever did anything except landscaping and lawn care. Now that I'm back in a different suburb, I see that things have not changed much. Once again, my house is the only vegetable garden I've seen in this town. The suburbs are basically a styrofoam-wrapped bubble, culturally speaking. People in rural areas and in cities are much more connected to and interested in nature, in my experience.
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Depends on what you call a suburb.
A small farm town swallowed by the larger cities or a sub division.
Many but not all of these folks that live in these subdivisions are simply consumers.
They have money and dont care where food comes from.
There was one of them in the store the other day buying corn bread mix she had no idea how to make cornbread.
I had to help her with something else I cant remember waht it was.
She was my age.
Corn Bread mix to me is one of the biggest ripoffs in history.
Corn meal and baking powder at ten times the cost.
The same goes for the fish fry mixes.
Where I live just down the street is some of the best farm land in the country just beautiful rock less sandy loam soil.
Vast open yards of it everywhere.
Not one person has a garden.
It makes me sick as I am on the top with the poor soil.
Worth