The Benefits of Growing Vegetables
You can grow a vegetable garden in your own backyard!
Gardening is a kind of self-prescribed preventative medicine, good for all ills.
by Sheryl London (see other gardening quotes!)
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Vegetable gardening is one of the fastest growing hobbies in America. It's easy to understand, as there are so many reasons to start your own vegetable garden:
- Vegetables picked fresh from your garden have far more flavor than the older produce you find at the grocery stores.
- Vegetable gardening for your family can be an economical means to stretch your food budget
- Vegetables picked fresh from your garden are far superior in vitamin and nutritional content. Every day that a vegetable is off the vine, it loses a significant portion of its nutritional value.
- Growing your own vegetables ensures that no harmful
chemicals or unsanitary growing conditions will affect your family's food and health (organic gardening).
- In these uncertain times, it is comforting to know that you can take matters into your own hands in providing for your family
- Growing vegetables and gardening is fantastic exercise!
- There is a definite sense of satisfaction in watching this natural wonder that you've helped to create, grow. Every day, you see changes in the garden: plants grow, flowers bloom, fruit forms on the vine, and vegetables seem to grow right there before your eyes.
- Vegetable gardening is also a wonderful family-oriented science project.
Have the kids keep a daily journal of what they've
done and the changes they see in the garden.
- Having your family help with the garden instills basic values of self-sufficiency, responsibility and work-ethic. Donating surplus vegetables to neighbors or your local food pantry will help your kids understand the importance of tithing and of community.
- With every meal that you provide your family from your own fruit and vegetable garden, you help reduce the strain on an already overburdened food supply chain.
See also instructions for growing:
- Vegetables
- Herbs
- Fruits
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Note: the advice and information contained herein is based upon our experience and study. As with any advice, please apply at your own discretion.