Food for thought: gardening for survival.(Your Life)

There is no better way to go green than to, well, grow green, maintains Ellen LaConte, author of Life Rules: Why So Much Is Going Wrong Everywhere at Once and How Life Teaches Us to Fix It Raising fruits and vegetables in your own backyard (or in containers) brings a bounty of benefits. It is a source of fresh, delicious, and wholesome food--and great exercise, as well as relaxing, spiritually rewarding, and deeply satisfying, especially in light of the artificial environments in which most of us live and work. LaConte contends it is a life skill we all should cultivate.

"People work so hard to acquire the skills needed to make a living, yet most of us neglect the most basic, …