If you want to avoid at least some of the toxins and harmful chemicals we are exposed to nowadays, growing organic food is one important way to do that.
When non organic food is produced it is regularly sprayed with toxins. This is to protect it from various plant diseases caused by micro organisms, fungi and bugs.
The bad news are that the toxins used are not only harmful to the pests they are intended to combat, but to many other living organisms, and among these humans.
The chemicals used to combat plant pests mainly reach us in three different ways. First, the chemicals reside in the plants that are being sprayed and thus when we eat the food we also eat the toxins. Second, they trickle down through the soil and into the ground water, which we use for drinking, cooking and perhaps to water our crops. Third, some chemicals wull spread through the air as the farmer sprays the crops when it is not completely windless.
All these chemicals might cause cancer, depression and make you feel enervated. I believe these reasons alone make it important to avoid the chemicals. Moreover they have an environmentally harmful impact, slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) destroying the wildlife on our planet.
Growing organic food seems like a pretty good idea after this, right?
Then how do you go about doing this? Do you have to be a professional gardener, knowing all the nitty-gritties? Absolutely not. You need to have an interest, you need to enjoy working in the garden, and you need to be willing to learn some basic steps.
Children are often willing to get engaged in the garden, but perhaps not in every chore there is. To sow the tiny seeds, and then watch them sprout and grow fascinate most children. And what a joy to harvest the vegetables or pick the flowers you sowed some weeks ago! Mom or dad can do the weeding and the watering, right?
The reward for your efforts is considerable: being able to serve yourself and your family fresh, healthy food from your own backyard.
When non organic food is produced it is regularly sprayed with toxins. This is to protect it from various plant diseases caused by micro organisms, fungi and bugs.
The bad news are that the toxins used are not only harmful to the pests they are intended to combat, but to many other living organisms, and among these humans.
The chemicals used to combat plant pests mainly reach us in three different ways. First, the chemicals reside in the plants that are being sprayed and thus when we eat the food we also eat the toxins. Second, they trickle down through the soil and into the ground water, which we use for drinking, cooking and perhaps to water our crops. Third, some chemicals wull spread through the air as the farmer sprays the crops when it is not completely windless.
All these chemicals might cause cancer, depression and make you feel enervated. I believe these reasons alone make it important to avoid the chemicals. Moreover they have an environmentally harmful impact, slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) destroying the wildlife on our planet.
Growing organic food seems like a pretty good idea after this, right?
Then how do you go about doing this? Do you have to be a professional gardener, knowing all the nitty-gritties? Absolutely not. You need to have an interest, you need to enjoy working in the garden, and you need to be willing to learn some basic steps.
Children are often willing to get engaged in the garden, but perhaps not in every chore there is. To sow the tiny seeds, and then watch them sprout and grow fascinate most children. And what a joy to harvest the vegetables or pick the flowers you sowed some weeks ago! Mom or dad can do the weeding and the watering, right?
The reward for your efforts is considerable: being able to serve yourself and your family fresh, healthy food from your own backyard.
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