TCC: Does garden really pose a problem?

Re: “How can we save TCC community garden?” (Matt Driscoll column, 9-27).

After reading this column I asked myself, “Why is it someone new to Tacoma can find a problem, when none has existed for 50 years?”

Shelia Ruhland comes to Tacoma Community College via Moraine Park Technical College of Wisconsin. She takes the helm of TCC on March 15 and already a 50-year-old institution is deemed to be a problem.

The youth attending TCC may be able to learn much from the elders taking care of the garden. Tomato plants, bee hives, stalks of celery and the like are not the liability. The garden is not the liability. At the end of the growing season the remnants of the garden are returned to the earth.

The elderly immigrants from Eastern Europe are the liability! Or so a new immigrant to Tacoma from Wisconsin so believes. I suppose it’s time to discard the elderly and make them be shut-ins in their apartments.

This story was originally published September 28, 2015 at 1:20 PM with the headline "TCC: Does garden really pose a problem?."