The Organic Home Garden

You can see that my passion for growing food stems from a long history of experiences from my early days at home on the farm. Not everyone comes to gardening from such a background so let us ponder on a few reasons that may motivate you.

IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!

I will start with the most obvious, health. Home grown food is nearly always a little bit tastier and healthier for you. If you can move towards a permaculture approach to your garden then the benefits of organic food are even greater. Organic vegetables contain higher levels of vitamins and minerals and most importantly PHYTONUTRIENTS. Phytonutrients are the latest nutrient to come to the awareness of nutritionists. They are the edge that many of the earlier factory derived multi-vitamin tablets lacked. One fairly large direct marketing company has been promoting their benefits for years (they in fact devised some of the earliest multivitamins/minerals). They use organically grown, minimally processed vegetables and herbs as a source of the vitamins – and of course being whole food derived the phytonutrients are present as well.

Broccoli - a super food and so yummy!

Broccoli is one of many dark green health foods!

The second plus is that the food does not travel very far and arrives as fresh as you can get it to your kitchen bench! You pick it just before you need it and far less loss of vitality is evident in the food!

It has become very clear in the last decade that the fresher your food and the greater the quantity of fresh food in your diet the better your long term health. This alone should be motivation to grow a little bit close to home.

Let’s also not forget the potential fun of a family sharing in the whole process – young children have so much to gain from being involved in growing their own food.

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