A simple community accessible vegetable stand - that alone could revive neighborly spirit and cease the waving of our flabby arms at each other through windshield glass.

Spotted delightfully about the countryside during more pleasant months, these produce stands could be year round and offer more food choices, if the siren like call of McDonalds and Wal-mart fell short of our hearing.

Growing a vegetable garden is one of the most simple and fundamental acts of being human and communal. The seeds are readily available (watch out for the genetically modified seeds), the ground is there to till, and your spirit waiting to be raised. Nothing is greater learning for a child or adult, or a prison inmate, to develop that sense of caring and responsibility towards others and oneself.

Start out supplementing your Big Box diet with homegrown veggies and then put a little stand in your front yard brimming with fresh vegetables. They will soon be gone and a few dollars in their stead. Spend the money with other local businesses that create a quality product. This was how towns used to function.

Spread the good word, neighbors may likewise want to grow a batch of tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and collard greens. Where others are involved in common good works, strength and spirit prevail. Raise up fruits, nuts, and animals once your vegetable garden experiment gets off the ground.

On the lonely windswept mega farms there is no caring, no learning, and food manufactured in this way trucked to the Big Box store the customer inevitably regards as foreign and disdainful, as the obese and anorexic among us frighteningly show.

If a neighbor asks if drums of Diazinon, Dibrom, or Di-Syston have been dumped on your produce, you can honestly answer. These questions and concerns will probably lead to organic farming as a better and healthier way to farm.

A larger vegetable garden might spring up which could be commonly taken care of or segregated into plots as is the American custom. The greatest requirement of all for growing an organic vegetable garden is that you don't have to smoke dope, speak in a very soft voice, or be a vegetarian abortionist. You only have to be human.