TinaO's Profile

Won't touch it. Sweetener is sweetener not matter the form. As someone with celiac and a sugar sensitivity I don't bother with things like this - my body is going to react the same way to sugar as it does to agave or maple syrup or Splenda. All the GF or sugarfree products out there make someone who has a dietary health issue think they can be normal when they're just masking the problem with junk rather than taking the time to understand their body and its relationship to different foods in order to be healthy.

Go a while without cakes and one day you stop missing them anyway they're made.

Gen X/Y cusp - limited by space, but I certainly garden in my little apartment. I was on the balcony until my landlord dubbed my tomato plants as "furniture" which was forbidden on the balconies. What a bording building facade we have.

Anyway, I started with orchids ten years ago, have a mix of plants inside, and train bonsai. It's difficult to join a bonsai club as the few there are consist of retirees - I struck up a conversation with a guy recently who was doing trial and error at home like me because the meetings were during the day and you do want to be around people your own age.

That all said, I know plenty of young gardners, friends with suburb houses who love getting out in the yard and changing beds. The lily terrace currator at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a GenXer and seems to have a pretty young group of volunteers who help him out.