Wealthy Chinese begin growing their own food

This is a link to an interesting BBC article about recent food safety issues in China and how these issues are prompting some to grow their own food. The food scares are strange: glow-in-the-dark meat, exploding watermelons, melamine-tainted baby formula. What I found sad is that only those with the time and money can grow their own food. Poorer citizens are at the mercy of the food industry producing the unsafe food.
BBC: Wealthy Chinese begin farming after food-safety scares

My Garden in August

Things are going well in my little garden, even with the intense summer heat. I've been getting lots of ripe Yellow Pear tomatoes and Juliet tomatoes, a small Roma variety. Now some of the larger varieties are starting to ripen. I've had several hot peppers and bell peppers ripen and some cucumbers are coming on. The lettuce and sugar snap peas wilted long ago in the 90+ degree weather we've been having all summer.

One of the plants that I started from seed that survived was a Thai eggplant. The seed came free as a thank you gift from the heirloom seed company I ordered from this spring. I didn't know if the plant would survive, but I planted it outside anyway. Recently it shot up in size and put on buds. This morning I found this pretty little bloom.

I'm curious to try this eggplant variety and I hope the bloom produces an eggplant!

Stay cool!