The Boston Globe finds:
Escalating food prices are prompting more people to return to the soil this spring, according to community garden coordinators, garden centers, and merchants. Seed sales are up across the region, and organizers of community gardens report that waiting lists are expanding.
... American Seed -- which sells 35 million seed packets annually -- said it is shipping out about 18 percent more vegetable seeds to dealers than last year.
The story is similar at New England Seed Co. in Hartford. Sales of vegetable seeds are up about 20 percent from last year, said Warren Shepard of Brockton, the company's New England sales representative. Racks in some retail outlets are continually in need of refilling, he said.
The Arizona Republic reminds readers not to spend so much money on water that they actually spend more on garden-grown food.
