Garden Lands Eugene Family in People Magazine
A Eugene family is featured in this week's People Magazine, not for red carpet fashion or celebrity scandal, but for their vegetable garden.
Call it a trend that's turning lawns into lunch.
Robin Clevenger and daughter, Asa, are planting tomato starts in their own back yard for garden fresh vegetables this summer.
It is a simple concept, that landed their Eugene garden in the People Magazine article on urban farming.
Robin says, "That's what shocked me that its such a big magazine its not permiculture today or urban garden magazine its People, which is cool."
Three years ago the family turned a steep, weed ridden corner of their yard into a bounty of fresh tomatoes, peas, carrots and cucumbers.
We get enormous amount of produce in the summer in these beds." Robin says, "When you want your salad you just come down and get your salad."
The Clevengers' are on the leading edge of a national urban gardening trend. The First Lady and people across the nation are ripping out expensive, chemical hungry lawns for food baring, economical gardens. And it doesn't stop there.
They also have backyard chickens: pets, with the added benefits of provide farm fresh eggs.
Robin says home grown vegetables and fresh eggs are much tastier than anything she can find at the store, "The kids eat way more vegetable when they grow them themselves."
Robin hopes the people magazine article plants the seed that helps sprout more urban gardens.
"It's not that hard," says Robin, "cause I am not a green thumb, I figure if I can grow a garden anyone can."
