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"According to the New York Times, &amp;quot;as companies have less to spend on raises, health benefits and passes to the water park, a fashionable new perk is emerging,&amp;quot; in the form of employee gardens. Laid out on turf, along windows in containers and on green rooftops, these corporate crops have found homes in many major companies as of late, including Kohl&amp;#039;s, Google, Best Buy, PepsiCo and more.  At some companies, like Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health care company in New England, employees take morning or afternoon shifts in the weeds, while at other companies, the garden is maintained by hires (which would take care of the career clothing-garden clothing conundrum). But not everyone is convinced that this is corporate America&amp;#039;s way of enriching the well-being of company employees while simultaneously saving the planet.  A survey by the National Gardening Association suggests that backyard gardening is just plain-old blossoming. In 2009, 41 million Americans were growing produce at home, up 13 percent from the year before. We say, whether to encourage bonding, benefits or healthy eating in general, salt of the earth. Editors of Human Resource Executive magazine are calling it one of the top five benefits ideas of the year, according to the same article. If you could have any benefit, what would it be? Get creative! If you&amp;#039;re itching to join the movement, read 3 Healthy Veggies to Plant Right Now to and How to Maximize Small Garden Spaces. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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