5 Reasons to Start an Organic Garden

By Lauren Tessin
HL&S Guest Blogger and writer of MyGetRidOfGuide

With all the dangerous chemicals, the unknown, and the modified products, it’s hard to feel that your produce is safe. As you may already know, girls are maturing faster than years ago, and people are suffering from more and more diseases. Is it linked to the food we’re eating? Or perhaps it’s because of things like pesticides and hormones. Who knows, but we do know that growing our own garden can have several health benefits.

Growing your own produce is rewarding, cheaper and healthier.

If you’re thinking about starting your own garden, here are 5 reasons why you should definitely consider it this spring or summer!

1. It’s a great hobby: Gardening is a great way to spend time our doors. It allows you to keep your mind off things, get some fresh air, and even some exercise! It can also be fun if you have your children help you out.

2. Eat better: Since you have fresh produce growing right in your backyard, it’s going to encourage you to eat better. The recommended daily amount is at least 5-8 servings of fruits and vegetables. With a garden, this should be easily attainable.

3. Save money: Although produce is often cheaper in the warmer months, it’s still cheaper to grow it on your own. Due to this, you could easily save $20 a week! Have too much growing and you don’t want it to go to waste? If so, just freeze it in freezer bags and you’ll have a fresh supply for months!

4. It’s organic!: As stated before, there is a lot to think about when it comes to your produce! Between sprays, certain bugs, as well as hormones and modification you never know what happened to your food before it got in your hands now.

5. No worries: If you maintain a garden yourself, you don’t have to worry about anything. You know how it’s grown, where it’s grown from and if you sprayed it with anything. Also, you don’t have to worry about people handling it at the stores, sneezing on it, having it fall on the ground, or even if it has dangerous things such as e-Coli on it.

Starting your own garden makes you feel good.

As you can see, there are several great reasons to consider growing your own garden. With all the unknown out there, all the handling at the store, and everything else it’s best just to go with what’s best and healthiest – and that’s from your own garden that you’ve been taking care of and monitoring!