Stick around, Stush. You can change the layout of your home page to resemble what it looked like previously using this page.
http://garden.org/users/prefs/...
Drag "Forums list" and "Watcher notifications" from their default location low on the page up to the very top, replacing the sweet potatoes that are currently in that position. Then click on "View your dashboard" (link toward the bottom of the page) to see the new version.
There's plenty more you can customize but it's easy enough to get back to the previous general order of things.
