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More on embracing change...

My last post on embracing change talked about how gardening information is being dispensed through media not usually associated with gardening. Just after the post I checked the site meter and found some incoming links from this source. Checking it out I found the comment board discussing late blight on tomatoes. What's the site? "AR15.com, Home of The Black Rifle". It's a gun site devoted to the "history, manuals, ammo, manufacturers, discussion groups, mailing lists, and distributors of AR-15s" (a type of gun). What is it about guns and gardening? I would gather it has to do with the whole self-reliance trend. No matter how you feel about guns, the fact that still another magazine like Garden & Gun, Soul of the New South exists shows how gardening information is now being dispensed through areas not formally considered "garden related." It's a huge opportunity for the local garden center to reach out to people and groups that formally might not have been considered "garden focused." Interesting...