The Urban/Organic,
In-town Grower...
A Bokashi story
HATTIE LEWIS, MASTER GARDENER
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
INTERVIEWED BY CUTTER STREEBY
A common theme I have found in the
interviews I have conducted is the belief
that bugs are good. For an outsider,
someone with no gardening experience,
this seems counterintuitive, and my attitude
going into this was, “See bug; kill bug.”
However, when you
interview Master Gardeners
and there is some common
ground, you tend to listen. I
interviewed Master Gardener
Hattie Lewis at the North 40
location in Great Falls, MT. Hattie is on the
board of city parks. When Hattie sat down
with me, I was struck by how closely her
bug lecture confirmed the same topic that
Joy covered.
1. 95% of all bugs are good bugs!
2. Don’t know if a bug is good or bad? Grab
it and take it to the local