CoAbode

I suppose you could go through life happily eating nothing but broccoli if you'd never tasted anything else but I suspect we'll never stop demanding the variety that we've sought throughout history. The spice road through Asia was a quest for taste not a conquest of territory. We've managed to miniaturize electronics and we'll probably figure out how to make tiny growing goodies as well. We might bear teeny fruits, itsy bitsy nuts and bite-sized veggies. Or, if we're smart, we might merely maintain a lush crop of grassy goodness -- something nutritious like wheat grass -- with a section of romain and a smattering of lamb's ear for flavor. There will, of course, be bugs to deal with and, as everyone knows, it's good to fertilize so we'll probably be spending just as much on gardening 'products' as we ever did on soaps, creams and clothing. Perfume could still be useful -- as long as we're not growing scented shrubbery but the alcohol and oils in these odors might not be a healthy choice for plant life and we might find them more useful on the soles of our feet. For stinky pinkies could really stand out against that freshly mowed smell. Along those same lines -- I'm not sure how sweat will effect the food crop and I'm pretty sure it'll take science several years, a lot of arguing, many mistakes and multiple retractions to decide whether working out and growing are a good fit or a mismatch. We won't have to decide what to wear anymore but we will have to worry more about what's living in what we're wearing. Butterflies and Lady Bugs will always be welcome but molds and mildews, gnats and fruit flies -- shall we spritz or do they serve a purpose?