in theory, the community garden is organic. in practice, it’s in los angeles. even if i never use a single pesticide or chemical additive, there are probably thousands of cars that drive by it every single day spewing exhaust, not to mention things like dry cleaners dumping chemicals down the drain, people changing the oil in their cars and dumping that down the drain, leaky gasoline tanks, cigarette butts, ugggghhhh you get the idea.

i will say that my neighbors’ full-grown vegetables and flowers all look remarkably healthy and every time i’ve gone by the garden in the daylight, it’s been full of butterflies. i’m not particularly worried about eating the stuff i grow - i figure i drink the same water and breathe the same air the plants do, so it can’t be that bad.