Artists from all diciplines (Music, Film, Theatre and um, Art) are filling many of those vacant homes and tearing down many of the rest- turning them into micro Vegetable farms and such.

Now, to mitigate that problem, are we, as the public willing to pay double for our fruits and vegetables?

I want to do some vegetable gardening, play some golf, travel with my wife, maybe a little hunting and fishing but only if it includes hanging out with "the boys".But most importantly I want to have enough that after taking care of my wife and kids just be able to give some away.

That, because of the recession, the general public has decided to grow food.You guys here on this forum are loading up on ammunition, but John Q is worried about whether he can afford to eat or not.I still needed berry plants, so got on-line and found that nurseries all over the country are sold out of berry plants, many fruit trees, and even some types of vegetable seeds.

You know - they keep reporting that the EPA did this as a way to show the public that sewage sludge was a safe fertilizer to use in crops (btw, Sasha and Malia would have been exposed to very high amounts of toxic lead eating vegetables from this soil).

Here in the desert, our green vegetation has a brownish color to it.

Imperial Valley is huge for farming, put it this way, more than 2/3 of the vegetables consumed in the United States during the winter months are grown here in the Imperial Valley.

What if it is a VA loan through B of A and the seller is a vegetable?

That's over your $4000 budget and someone has to weed the flower beds.The lowest maintenance yard I have is all in native vegetation.

We bought in a location that I have wanted to live since I was a kid, so we settled down and built 10 x 20 vegetable garden, compost pile, and chickens.