Growing Organic Food: Why It Is Important For You and the Environment
Today we are exposed to a great deal of toxins and harmful chemicals, and beacuse of that growing organic food is becoming more and more important by the day.
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.
However, these harmful chemicals are not only harmful to these living entities, but also to many other living things, including humans.
The toxins reach our bodies in various ways. To some extent they remain in the plants that are sprayed, which means you actually eat them when you eat the food (yummy!). Unfortunately, the chemicals also trickle down into the ground water. And we use water to drink, when we cook and maybe we water our own crops with it. If the farmers spray their crops when it is even slightly windy, the chemicals will also spread through the air.
The health is effected in many ways, for example making you feel depressed or enervated, and there are serious suspicions they might cause cancer. Harm is also being done to the wildlife, in some cases making species extinct. All this makes it really important to avoid the chemicals whenever you are able to.
Once knowing all these facts, growing organic food seems like quite an idea, 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!
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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