North 40 Life Magazine | Page 25

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