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Why Organic?
An article from our friends at Sow Organic.
- For Your Personal Health.
Organic gardening works with natural systems, using composts, crop rotations, rock dusts, seaweeds, and microbes, to improve soils, promote healthy plant growth and increase food production.
- For the Health of Your Garden.
Organic gardening encourages diverse plantings, works with crops that promote beneficial insects, and recycles nutrients with earthworms, composts and weeding.
- For the Health of Your Neighborhood.
Pollution of our environment with poisons is a problem in our society. Organic gardening looks for ways to promote fertility and health using non-toxic methods.
- For the Health of Our Planet.
Our personal health and the health of this lovely world that sustains us and millions of other creatures are closly interwoven. Our backyard gardens can be the sanctuaries for plants and animals whose homes are being destroyed.
By growing gardens with many kinds of plants, we encourage diversity. By growing part of our food in our gardens, we can harvest ripe produce at the peak of flavor and nutrition. We can improve the nutrition availabe to us by choosing varieties high in minerals and free amino acids. We can increase the mineral content of our foods by adding the right minerals to our soils. We can grow crops not available in local stores. We can harvest at full ripeness and in season. We can share our garden's natural abundance with our families, friends and neighbors.
Home gardening using organic methods allows us to improve our health and contribute towards a positive future for ourselves, our loved ones, our communities and our world.
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