Bumper Crop for Seed Companies

This from the Seattle Times.

Seed sales are up 30%. People are buying seeds and garden equipments to grow food themselves. Many of them are apparently first-time gardeners.

With uncertainty hanging over the economy, people seem to be striving toward self-sufficiency and self-reliance. Quietly but steadily, as this article from MSNBC states:

"The National Gardening Association, a nonprofit research group based in South Burlington, Vt., projects that 43 million of the nation’s 111 million households will grow at least some of their own fruits, vegetables, berries and herbs this year — a rise of more than 19 percent over last year. More than half — 54 percent — said they were looking to save on their food bills, the association said in its annual report on home and community gardening in the United States."

(And I've been watching this stock forever now...in my other blog.)

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