Homes with gardens grow on boomers

FAR - News & Events - Homes with gardens grow on boomers: "PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Jan. 17, 2007 – Inspired by the legendary Woodstock music festival in 1969, Joni Mitchell penned a song with this refrain: We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

The verses told a tale of the era: a lesson about connecting with the Earth. They became an anthem for the generation and one of Mitchell’s most-covered songs.

Almost four decades later, some of the baby boomers who committed those lines to memory are once again getting back to the garden.

But this time they’re not looking for compost piles in communes.

Boomers want idyllic gardens near their homes that they can tend on their own schedules – at least, that’s what marketing experts believe. And as much of the generation scouts retirement destinations, an eager building industry is seizing on the trend."