01/16/06 Greying boomers

Consumer trend experts say that in 2006 and beyond graying baby boomers will become weary of maintaining large expanses of lawn and gardens, gardening now has become hard work thus they will look to alternative methods to remain connected with the land. In the years to come there will be a rise of innovative agricultural concepts creatively marketed by farmers to fill this void. To guarantee a sustainable holiday turkey urbanites will be able to raise 'e- birds" e-mailing diet specifics to their farmer while monitoring the turkey's daily progress via live internet. Farfetched, not really, given that wine aficionados have already succumbed to savvy vineyard marketing and can now become Quasi grape growers by financially supporting and naming one vine in the vineyard as theirs to prune, nurture and harvest. Of course ranchers have been ahead of this curve for years ago by getting dudes to pay to move their cattle from one pasture, IN 2006 it's "City Slickers" all over again . I'm Susan Allen and this has been Food Forethought.