I never thought I would be writing articles like this when I as a young farm kid back in the 80’s here in small town Missouri. Gardening in those days was a fairly simple process that required knowledge and a “little folklore” passed down from generation to generation, without much variation in the natural rhythms established long ago by our ancestors. Then again, that was last century and most of us were not really focused on the impact we were causing our environment with our seemingly innocent lives.