Are you a business person hopefully addicted to social networking and sites like Linkedin and Facebook? In your spare time are you a gardener? If you can answer yes to both questions or even just the last question, then freedomgardens.org is a site for you.
I don’t even remember how I discovered Freedomgardens. I think it was while I was doing research for my Eat The View post or maybe it was my post on urban condos. Ah, it doesn’t matter where I found it. What matters is that I found the ultimate in social networking sites and it is a site for people who like to garden.
The purpose behind Freedom Gardens can best be summed up by this quote from the site.
Think of it as Facebook meets the Farmer’s Almanac: A social networking site for 21st century pioneers who want to fight soaring food prices and global warming by growing their own food. On this site, novice and expert growers from all over the world can gather to post success stories, ask questions, and challenge one another to ever-increasing levels of self-sustained living.
I myself have found a network of gardeners in my local area to swap stories with, to potentially swap excess produce with and to learn from. When you are a gardener there is nothing better. If want to be a gardener this is also a strong support group to get you on your way! If you want to be my gardener friend when you join up, you can find me here.
So there you go. Get out there and garden! There is no better time than now to get started and with the current state of things gardens will become more important than ever before, or perhaps just as important as the Victory Gardens of the past!
In response to the heavy impact of World War II on the U.S. economy, Americans were urged to grow a victory garden (also called a war garden) in 1943. The gardens were planted by about 20 million families and would eventually provide nearly half of the fresh produce consumed during this troubled time. On rooftops, in back yards and even in containers on front porches, Americans produced eight million tons of fruit, vegetables and herbs in their own households.
Presently we are faced with a future that’s will be fraught with fuel scarcity, rising food cost and environmental implications.
As the world encounters hard times - there will be need of practical and back to basics solutions.
Freedom Gardens is growing beyond victory garden a food security movement person to person, blog to blog, neighbor to neighbor. A modern gardening era/movement for the 21st century resulting in efforts to become free of foreign oil, corporate controls, contamination and food miles while creating a sustainable future by promoting local food production.
Andrew Stone - EcoBroker® 
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Thanks for sharing this info with us, Andrew. I had a chance to check out the site and I see it is still in its infancy stage. I will be back to check for updates. I am an avid gardener and my husband is a Hops farmer :-) I look forward to being able to share our interests with others. I'm just not ready to sign up for one more thing at this very moment. Thanks again.
Frances Sanderson, Franklin, NH REALTOR®, Certified EcoBroker®