Home Depot's Cash for Trash Plan

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Saturday March 28, 2009 · 12:56 PM PDT

2009/03/28 · 12:56

What a heady few weeks for the humble world of backyard horticulture. First Alice Waters on 60 minutes talks about raising fruit and vegetables on the White House lawn. Then we're treated to story after story about the new victory gardens sprouting up across America, with many positive references to Eleanor Roosevelt's.

On March 20 First Lady Michelle Obama's new kitchen garden broke ground. NBC News that night chimes in about skyrocketing vegetable seed sales. Even Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, sounding a bit like Chauncy Gardener from Jerzy Kosinski's Being There, jumped on board. He observed on 60 Minutes that the economy is now showing some "green shoots."

So as a horticulture professional and lifelong avid gardener, I'm thrilled that gardening is cool, and has become a big part of the national conversation. As a bedding plant supplier, though, from our point of view in the supply chain, it's not all good. Deflation has stuck its foot in the door of the low-profile greenhouse business, and The Home Depot is in the thick of it.

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I Went to High School with Ann Coulter

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Saturday March 14, 2009 · 3:52 PM PDT

2009/03/14 · 15:52

Ann Coulter garners more attention than she deserves, but as a public service allow me to share some tidbits about the town where she grew up. At the least this will provide a basis of understanding, as in "how did she grow up to be such nutjob?" to borrow Al Franken's useful term.

I don't have the answer to that question. I don't know if she's crazy. But I may be able to offer a few clues to her public personna with a few facts and ancedotes about the special place she called home before making the big time. It ranks high among the richest communities in the nation, a statistic you can look up. It would also rank somewhere high on any list of those with the most family dysfunction, if such a list could be found. In short, it is full of batshit-crazy rich people. I should know, I grew up there too, in a family crazier than most.

Follow me below the fold to the simply splendid town of New Canaan, Connecticut, which bills itself as the next station to heaven, whose motto is grow or go.

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