Upon moving into our new house we decided to build a garden. The benefits of having a garden in your back yard are many. Here are a few:
Freshness: Food available to cook as soon as you pick it. As soon as you pick food it begins to break down, some things lose half of their sugars within an hour.
Beauty: Plants are beautiful things.
Sustainability: The food you are eating is a hop skip and a jump away as opposed to the average 1500 miles most travels to get to your plate.
Relaxation: Being in a garden tending to the needs of the plants also tends to care for your personal health.
Variety: We love tomatoes, and you can only buy on or two kinds in the store. That is why we have 18 different varieties of tomatoes in our garden.
Waste: Eating food from your garden does not produce any packaging only compost that you can use the next year around.
Community: When you start growing your own food, you can share excess with your family or friends.
Price: The cost of gardening is very small if you avoid unnecessary things.
The first step in the process was to ask our landlord if he would allow us to plant some vegetables in the back yard. He agreed to our request and even helped out a bit.
