Home Farming vs. Home Gardening

I used to tell people that I did gardening, then people asked me what type of flowers I planted.  I smiled and said "only the flowers that grow into something that is edible."

I realized at that point that "Gardening" has been defined by the consumer marketing "powers that be" to be an artistic expression, something of beauty.

That's different than the definition I learned from my father, who was raised in Nova Scotia between the two World Wars, and learned to live off the land and growing their own food.  When I was a teen he bought a Roto-tiller and tilled over a third of the acre he owned.  The surplus produce he sold to the local supermarket, earning enough to cover the cost of the tiller and a large freezer.  We ate food harvested from the garden until February.

That's not gardening, not any more.  That's farming.