Gardening is Blowing Up, Yo

We were introduced to gardenregistry.org earlier this week. It's sort of like Facebook for gardens. It's a cool concept, and this product at least looks really slick. Some of the features I see include posting extra veggies for trade, sharing of photo albums, and it could obviously be a platform for distributing educational content to interested users. It appears that this was built by a a civic or non-profit entity, so I'm curious what the long-term plans entail. It does call itself a "registry" rather than a social network, but I think there is opportunity for the latter.

I was also contacted by an old coworker and friend who has recently started a garden in Oakland. He claims they were inspired by us, and I'll take full credit. But I think there is a bigger movement afoot here, and I am seeing new gardeners like ourselves pop up all around me. Gardening is the new Knitting.

In the meantime, we finally received our Panasonic Lumix FS15. We're checking it out and comparing it to the camera were borrowing right now and will post more photos this weekend.

Also, arugula update: some of it's ready to eat. Yum.