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Gardens:
soul food
By Regina Yurkonis
Times Newspapers Special Writer
For those who missed the Hillscape Seminars at the Hill School in Middleburg, the following are summaries of the speakers’ presentations:
Janet Marinelli began by explaining that most humans find beauty in gardening. Our brains give us a pleasurable chemical reward for accomplishing a task, she said.
All humans have a “creative tendency” — it helps ensure our survival. By creating a growing garden, we are helping provide ourselves with resources for the future and we are genetically programmed to know the results are a good thing.
Marinelli said that our gardening, however, has gone astray from the beneficial to the commercial. We tend to plant the same things wherever we happen to live. You’ll find the same petunias growing in front of a house in
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