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Why Grow?
Fresh food taste better.
Well, that’s a rather opinionated reason; maybe you enjoy your vegetables prematurely picked and then chemically ripened on their long and exhaustive journey from Chile. Let’s get down to the factual arguments.
1. Safety & Health
Chemical & Contamination Risks. Chemical contamination of food is a leading cause of international trade problems. Intentionally and unintentionally the food manufacturing and processing industry uses food additives and contaminants. Vast transportation undergone also can introduce nonnative bacteria and illness.
Exercise. A lack of exercise is injurious to your health. Gardening is an ideal way to get out of the population that is exercise deficient. It offers sufficient and demanding workout (decreasing the risk of high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as promoting healthier bones, muscles and joints), but is less stressful to the body than other exercise options, such as jogging or aerobics.
Creativity. Enrich your psyche. Play with design. Explore plants, positions, arrangements. Play with the possibilities.
Stress relief. Get out of the pitch of the fast past environment.
2. Education
Witness first hand lessons in botany, invertebrate zoology, weather, hydrology, the cycles of life, death and physical decay, and the fact that we all depend utterly on green plants for our sustenance.
3. Save Money
Cut down your cost on produce. With the uprising cost of food, seeds are less expensive.
4. Environmental
Waste reduction. Make use of countless items and materials that would normally require disposal.
Food Miles. Cut down the food industries toll on our resources. Look at where your food, especially out of season produce come from and take into consideration the amount resources used from transportation alone.
There are countless more benefits to gardening, hopefully that is enough to get you started on discovering your own.