Is it ethical to plant a food garden in a drought? Yes

Is it ethical to plant a food garden in a drought? Yes
Pam Peirce
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Careful water conservation in your garden can produce a food harvest using less water than most crops produced by agriculture.Photos by Pam Peirce
As California repeats its frequent pattern of periodic extreme drought, I think of a past drought during which a friend told me of an elderly San Francisco widower who stopped growing vegetables to help save water. He just stopped, left his yard fallow, bought his vegetables.
As gardening to grow food had been his exercise and among his greatest joys. I have often wondered what happened next. Did he despair when he gave up his garden? Was his health good enough to allow him to garden when that drought let up? Should gardeners stop gardening when water restrictions are imposed?

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