Why a Garden at Home?
Gardening is good for many reasons. It's good for your health, it's good for your soil, and it's good for the wildlife in your backyard.
It's a great stress reliever, a great hobby, something you can do season after season, year after year, with your family. Growing your own produce is a great way to become more sustainable at home and reduce your environmental impact.
Gardening brings with it many benefits, apart from the personal satisfaction of having grown something. Most of the gardens are in the backyard, that is, outdoors, that means exposing ourselves to sunlight which increases vitamin D and therefore benefits our bones, teeth, muscles and the immune system. Besides, it is a low-impact while maintaining it and high-impact exercise if you lift pots, bags of fertilizers or move wheelbarrows of earth.
In addition to the aforementioned benefits, gardening also provides improvements in nutrition and relief for the family economy.
The fact that contaminated fruits and vegetables appear more frequently in the news, its something we cannot prevent from happening, but we can prevent them from reaching our table by growing our own vegetables.
By growing your own garden, your diet becomes more sustainable, as your food won't have to travel more than a few feet to reach your plate.