10 Top Reasons for Going Organic
2012-07-29T10:45:32+10:00
If you’re not already convinced, here are PHIL DUDMAN’S top 10 reasons for growing your own organic food. Spread it around!
- Know your food – when you’ve grown your own food you know what’s been sprayed, or more importantly, what hasn’t been sprayed on the food you eat.
- Love your food – food picked at the peak of freshness tastes better and is jam-packed with the vitamins and minerals are bodies are crying out for
- Health and Happiness – gardening makes you feel good and when you eat the food you’ve grown yourself – without harmful chemicals – you enjoy better health
- Varied diet – growing your own allows you to eat a wide variety of fruit and vegetables not commonly available in shops
- Save money – in today’s market, a $3 punnet of leek seedlings will return $150 worth of fresh organic leeks within 6 months. Beat that for an investment return!
- Reduce carbon footprint – modern food production and distribution relies on burning fossil fuels. Growing your own burns nothing but fat, and the food miles = zero
- Food security – when we run out of fuel, we’ll all need to be good gardeners, so let’s get started.
- Biodiversity – growing a range of fruit and veg contributes greatly to the biodiversity in your backyard. When the rest of the neighbourhood catches on, the biodiversity will really be humming!
- Beauty – organic food gardens are simply beautiful to look at, and they are ever-changing so there’s no risk of getting bored with the same old view
- Sharing – growing food stimulates sharing… sharing of ideas, knowledge, experience, tools, seeds, produce and of course… friendships. Isn’t that the kind of world we want to live in?
