Sue is dead on the mark in her posts on this thread. We do live in the most agriculturally illiterate society ever in the history of civilization.
This is very true, most of the city folks are extremely agriculturally illiterate.
This was the case with the home grown Swiss spaghetti crop during the 1950s. Most folks have never heard of the Swiss spaghetti harvest (mostly locally grown crop) where the delicious spagetti could be eaten straight from the tree before being dried out for storage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNO2Kcvz2kAll we have now is the mass produced dried synthetic variety of the chemically enhanced spaghetti mostly produced in Italy.
Education is the key.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGYs4KS_djg