In our neighborhood, with its mostly 100 year old houses, many of the yards host spirea bushes. This time of year, the spirea bushes bend toward the ground, their branches loaded with clusters of tiny white flowers. They seem ready for a dozen weddings.

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We garden in part because we’re frugal. We have a longtime commitment to being careful with our resources, like money and food, as well as being wise stewards of the natural resources of the earth. I’m not to saying that we don’t waste anything, but that we work hard at being conscious of our consumption and waste, and that we make regular efforts to curtail both.

Today’s New York Times article about food waste was nonetheless an astonishing wake-up call. The idea of that much food — 27% of the food available for consumption in the US — ending up in the landfill is utterly nonsensical. As a society, we can do better than that.
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