Growing Organic Food: Why It Is Important For You and the Environment
Growing organic food is one important way to avoid at least some of the toxins and health treatening chemaicals that we are exposed to these days.
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.
Although these toxins are designed to harm the living organisms they are used against, they also harm humans as well as many other living creatures.
But how do these toxins get to us then? Well, for one thing they remain to a certain extent in the plant itself; thereby making you ingest toxins as you eat (doesn’t sound all that delicious, right?). They also trickle down into the ground water, which we drink, use for food preparation and perhaps for watering crops. Some chemicals even spread through the air if the crops are sprayed when it is not absolutely 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?
Is it difficult then, to grow your own food? No, it is most certainly not. But as with all things you set out to do, it helps if you have a genuine interest and actually enjoy, at least to some extent, working in the garden. You also need to learn some basic steps to get it right.
Take all the help you can get, and encourage your children if they show even the slightest interest. They don’t need to be a part of everything you do in the garden, but perhaps they can do the sowing (usually quite popular), and water once in a while, which can be quite fun if you also water mom or dad, or even better, your little brother or sister!
It is well worth it to put some effort into your gardening, as you will be able to present your family with the freshest and healthiest food ever, all coming from your own garden, tiny, small or large.