Gardening For Yourself, Your Family, Your Environment

Gardening For Yourself, Your Family, Your Environment

Remember when just about every family had a garden? Now it’s considered pretty rare. In this day and age when fast food is a regular week night meal rather than a rare treat, we are accustomed to convenience. It requires some work, but the benefits are plenty.

Gardening is therapy. It feels good to get your hands in some dirt. Gardening helps the environment and allows you to eat organic foods without the high cost. Gardening can also be an opportunity for building relationships with your family members. Children get a great sense of accomplishment by growing food from seeds. It also allows them to appreciate things that are usually taken for granted.

These days there’s no excuse to not garden. It is relatively easy and you can get help from the sales person at the nursery or from the library. Gardens don’t have to take up a quarter acre; you can garden in a corner of your yard or in pots on your porch.

Do you have a green thumb? Maybe you have a fruitful garden already and can share your skills with women who are scared to get a little dirt under their nails. Come talk about it in the Women’s Nest Women’s Forum.

Article Written by Elizabeth Renter