Why Garden?
According to the book "Organic Living" gardening
provides these benefits:
1. Respects the environment
2. Produces healthy food
3. Encourages wildlife
4. Recycles waste
5. Reduces pollution
6. Builds on traditional gardening
practices
7. Embraces new technology where appropriate
8. Makes use of local resources
My list would be a little different
and look like this:
1. Local gardening is a good place for
building local community
2. Saves energy.
3. Empowers people to be self reliant and
that add to cultural resilience.
4. Pollution (waste) becomes a resource and produces
food rather than liability.
5. Gardening increase both physical and
mental health.
6. Gardening can save money.
7. A Diversity of wildlife, plants, and
people can find niches within gardening
and coexist.
All the above comments apply to organic gardens and
to some extent other gardens.
jeff
