There are so many good reasons to have a little garden in your life. Some of the benefits are plain to see, but some are surprising. Whether you lovingly craft a plan or just choose a corner and plop in a tray or two of tomatoes, the process of growing some food is healthy and fulfilling.
Fresh air, good exercise, and a sense of pride for your accomplishment can’t be beat. You’ll watch and wait while the little beauties grow and ripen, watering when hot and dry, plucking the errant weed along the way, nurturing them like children.
When the goodies start arriving on your table, you’ll appreciate the best reasons of all for doing it. Your fresh and tasty fruits and vegetables are full of nutrients and vitamins, so your family’s health and happiness will improve.
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Your produce will have no chemical residues from herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, and preservatives unless you put them on there. You won’t have to worry about the bacterial contamination so common in today’s commercial marketplace either. Plus, your conscience (and the atmosphere) will appreciate the fact that no fuel was needed to bring the goods from across the country or even across the ocean.
It won’t hurt to save money on groceries either. Not only that, but you’ll be getting the GOOD stuff which costs more than the hothouse varieties.
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One of the most important benefits is that you can begin to protect your family from the hidden dangers of GMO foods. A very large amount of commercially produced food crops today are genetically modified. These crops are engineered with genes from viruses and bacteria to survive otherwise deadly doses of herbicide.
The idea is that this will allow the farmer to heavily dose the entire field without killing the food crop. Unfortunately, many other living things suffer or die as a result, and untold human health issues are beginning to come to light as well.
Currently 61% of corn, 89% of soy, 80% of canola, and 83% of cotton grown in the USA is GMO, and this has only just started in the early nineties. These products are not currently labeled, so the only ways to avoid them are to buy foods with a USDA Organic sticker, or GROW YOUR OWN!