Abstract
It's hard to beat the natural "high" of seeing one's efforts "playing with dirt”
resulting in lovely fruits, vegetables, and/or flowers. Many of us, especially
in the vegetarian-friendly community, strongly prefer organic over chemical-
based gardening. However, vegetarians, as well as the general public
concerned with "Mad Cow" disease, need to be aware that many organic
gardening practices advocate the use of items such as blood and bone meal
and other slaughterhouse byproducts.
In this presentation, based on an article that I published (available online at
www.trianglevegsociety.org/grapevine/v12/vegarden.html), I will discuss
approaches to organic gardening that are “veganic”, not using any animal
byproducts at all, and "vegetarian", avoiding ground-up animals but perhaps
using manure. I will conclude with a bit of detail on rose culture, and talk about
how I have used "vegetarian" gardening practices to grow award-winning roses
(see my rose page at www.cs.unc.edu/~barman/roses.html).