Local as Local Gets; The Benefits of Having a Home Garden

Grow Some Dinner

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/backyard-gardening-grow-your-own-food-improve-your-health-201206294984

This blog focuses from Harvard Medical School focuses on how growing your own fruits and vegetables and using them to cook can help your overall health. It helps you eat more fresh local fruits and vegetables, keeps you away from different fertilizers and hormones, and lets you control your portions and exactly how your food is being harvested. It is also great for the environment! "When you grow your own food, you savor it more because you take it to the table with you..." (Dr. Helen Delichatsios, an internist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.) It also helps you attract other people in your community to do this. The benefits of harvesting, nuturting and farming are endless and I am a firm believer in this. This blog inspired me to start my own little garden on the roof top of my apartment. You are staying more nurished and limiting your environmental impact as well. You will be reducing the use of fossil fuels and the resulting pollution which comes from all the traveling our fruits and veggies have to do to get to our local supermarket, not to mention, local food always tastes better.