Buzzwords

I'm taking two days off, heading to Honolulu to get my annual "big city" fix. Thus today (gosh, why didn't I realize that this was Black Friday! Was I insane?) we got to luxuriate in the aisles of a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Making it back to the garden section, I feasted my eyes on the titles of dozens and dozens of books. Then it hit me......one buzzword after another. Gosh, there's a whole string of them now. Book titles included all too common phrases like --

   Urban farming

   Homesteading
   Mini Farm

   Apartment farming

   Balcony farmer

   Container gardens

   Vertical gardening

   Hobby farmer

   Family farm
   ____Yard Farming/Gardening (fill in the blank with front or back)
   Edible Landscaping

   Factory farming

   No till

   Polyculture

   Permaculture

   Organic

   Natural farming

   Biodynamics

   Sustainable

   Green

   Self sufficient

And then there are the popular ones that I didn't see on book titles --

   Gentleman farmer

   Monoculture

   Grass fed

   Free range

   Better than organic

   Farm-to-table

   Localvore

If the book titles can be used as a poll, then food growing is the popular concern and focus nowadays. I can recall a time when bonsai was all the rage, or indoor plants, and the time there was a flurry of water garden/pond books. Now it's food oriented. Oh how the times have changed from frivolous to survival.