Grow your own garden!

There are many reasons to grow some of your own food.

• It is fun. The miracle of seeing carrots sprout from a tiny seed and grow into a plant, or radishes go from seed to table in only a month, it fun to watch. Be careful, walking through your garden can become addicting!
• It is healthy. Home grown food doesn't travel thousands of miles to your table, it is picked when fully ripe, and you know it was grown organically and without pesticides, assuming that is the way you choose to grow your garden.
• It is kind on the environment. Less transportation, packaging, chemicals and fertilizers where used to grow your own vegetables or fruit.

I want to grow some of my own food for all of these reasons and more. But you don't have to believe in maintaining seed diversity or the dangers of entrusting our food sources to a handful of monolithic profit seeking companies to make growing a garden worthwhile. If you are interested in these topics, start with the book reviews posted here from time to time. Books can open your eyes to the practices in our food system today. But be careful, you may decide to grow ALL of your food after reading some of them.