Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1989
Excerpt
As my grandfather and I stood at the roadside in front of a desolate plot of land, taking cover under an umbrella from a driving rain with an annoying real estate agent blurting blandishments at us, I remember wondering if I truly enjoyed gardening or if I was fooling myself. I suspect my grandfather was asking himself similar questions. Somewhat apprehensively, we returned to the real estate office to sign papers for the pitiful scrap of land. On the way home, I remember asking my grandfather what we were going to do next. He said, very simply, "We're going to get dirty." The land we had just purchased was to become a 1000 square foot garden, a project we had longed to undertake for some time. Those are the events of a stormy spring day when I was fourteen years old.
Recommended Citation
Ludwig, Steve, "Symbiosis of Plants and People (1989)" (1989). The Valpo Core Reader. 424.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/424