Growing your own food is such a simple idea. It makes sense that people should try to be more self-sufficient, self-sustaining and simplistic in this multi-national, corporate owned, complex world. And what could be simpler than having a garden?
Growing your own food is empowering in many ways: you know exactly where it´s coming from and you are, in many ways, connected to it. Also, you can spend some time doing fruitful labor outside, instead of going to the stuffy indoor gym to climb plastic Stairmasters to nowhere.
Gardening on a smaller scale can be much more efficient and sustainable compared to large-scale farming. In your garden, you most likely won´t be using fossil fuel-eating tractors. And, of course, the food tastes much better!
Somehow, between the dusty, dirty, muddy fields and the pretty produce displays, the connection between food and its cultivation gets lost. In this age of machines, I think we forget that they cannot do everything on a farm that needs to be done. I somehow thought that organic meant no migrant labor, but I´ve seen it at some of the farms I´ve visited.
One last thing to think about is how far your food has to travel to get to you, and all the energy and fossil fuels going into its transport. By growing your own food, you´re making a commitment to eating locally and seasonally, which is a great thing.
I highly recommend you to start growing yourself especially your own food. To all of you who do grow some of your own already, keep up the amazing work! If you don´t, for the sake of you, simplicity, sustainability and for Kind Earth, It´s easy. You don´t need a green thumb, just some sunlight and water.
Growing your own food is empowering in many ways: you know exactly where it´s coming from and you are, in many ways, connected to it. Also, you can spend some time doing fruitful labor outside, instead of going to the stuffy indoor gym to climb plastic Stairmasters to nowhere.
Gardening on a smaller scale can be much more efficient and sustainable compared to large-scale farming. In your garden, you most likely won´t be using fossil fuel-eating tractors. And, of course, the food tastes much better!
Somehow, between the dusty, dirty, muddy fields and the pretty produce displays, the connection between food and its cultivation gets lost. In this age of machines, I think we forget that they cannot do everything on a farm that needs to be done. I somehow thought that organic meant no migrant labor, but I´ve seen it at some of the farms I´ve visited.
One last thing to think about is how far your food has to travel to get to you, and all the energy and fossil fuels going into its transport. By growing your own food, you´re making a commitment to eating locally and seasonally, which is a great thing.
I highly recommend you to start growing yourself especially your own food. To all of you who do grow some of your own already, keep up the amazing work! If you don´t, for the sake of you, simplicity, sustainability and for Kind Earth, It´s easy. You don´t need a green thumb, just some sunlight and water.
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