Most of us go to the nearest grocery store to purchase fruits and vegetables. Most of the produce we buy is brought in from faraway places, like blueberries are brought in from Columbia during the winter months in the northern hemisphere (in the N.H. of the earth fresh blueberries are available May thru October).
You also take the chance of buying fruits and vegetables that have been grown with the use of dangerous pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides, unless of course you buy organic produce. But even then, most people will not, as they consider organic produce too expensive.
Have you given it thought to growing your own fruits and vegetables on your own piece of land, and if not possibly claiming a small plot for yourself in a community garden?
You can grow your own produce without using any chemicals that are used in growing traditional commercial produce. Growing your own food supply also saves you money and allows you to contribute to a more healthy earth for all living things.
An Organic Vegetable Garden Is Threefold
How is having an organic vegetable garden threefold? Consider the following.
When you decide to grow organic, or even buy organic foods, you are committing to growing and eating food in its natural state.
What would you use in place of chemicals? You would use mulch, chicken manure (can be used all season long as it will not burn the plants roots, like cow manure can), or compost to fertilize the garden.
Having an organic vegetable garden will require weeding, watering, and harvesting the vegetables and fruits when they become ripe. But don’t think of weeding as work or time consuming. Think of it as exercise, which your body needs in the first place to stay healthy.
Having an organic vegetable garden is threefold,
- Growing and enjoying your own food
- Doing so without chemicals
- Getting in exercise at the same time
Organic Vegetable Gardening with Your Health In Mind
As an organic gardener, you will learn how to grow foods holistically and with health as a priority. Your own grown organic produce will contain valuable nutrients, such as more phytonutrients (less are found in chemical grown produce) for better health.
Stepping out of your home to the garden affords you picking and harvesting fresh produce at its peak. Having an organic garden doesn’t only give you food, it also gives you better health.
Composting for a Healthier Organic Garden
You will need to have a compost pile, which contains leaves, grass clippings, other plant debris, and kitchen food scraps. All of this once it has decayed, forms the best soil and fertilizer available for your organic vegetable garden needs, and it’s free.
Worms and other garden creatures will eventually get in action of converting your compost heap into raw matter, which is a pure, black, healthy earth.
How Organic Gardening Can Help Us
Organic farming and gardening has many positive effects on our lives, benefits that range from physical to social, and to our emotional wellbeing.
Once you start gardening you will find it a stress relieving adventure.
You can spend more time out in the sun tending your organic garden, and getting the vitamin-D which your body needs to keep your skin and bones healthy. You will become more physically fit by working in an organic garden.
You get to use your muscles on a regular basis and you will be growing food that is actually healthy to all parts of our body.
You can feel comfortable that you are not adding to the destruction of the earth and its valuable soil. Putting your hands in the dirt can be soothing and can bring satisfaction of eating your own grown and harvested food.
Starting an Organic Garden
If you don’t have a lot of land, or live in an apartment complex with a small patio or balcony that gets at least 6 hours of direct sun, you can grow your own produce using pots, to and grow vegetables like tomatoes, herbs, and peppers.
If you have your own home and land, be sure to always have a compost heap so you always have a ready supply of rich soil.
Find a sunny spot in your yard and till it, making room for several rows of whatever type of vegetable you like.
In conclusion, if you don’t find gardening is for you, then make it a point to always buy organic foods at the store (in season produce is cheaper).
Doing so, you can do your part in keeping the earth, its soil, animal life (bees and other pollinators) healthy, including yourself.
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That basket image alone is enough to convince anyone to become a vegetarian! Great post, Randy, my naked chef! 😉