Benefits of Gardening

Gardening is beneficial to body, mind, and soul.  It provides me with healthy and nourishing food free from insecticides and herbicides.  I have fresh food from the garden to the table throughout the year.  At any given time, I know exactly what went into the soil and I'm able to nibble on the vegetables in the garden without having to wash them first.

Gardening provides me with full body exercise:  I am stretching, pulling, bending, and reaching for the various vegetables and/or the weeds.  What a better place to exercise than in the fresh air under a blue sky and letting the wind play with my hair.

Another benefit of gardening is educational.  It entails doing research and sometimes even attending seminars about e.g. attracting bees to the garden.

Gardening is to some degree experimental, trying new cultivars and to find out what those vegetables require for best growth, development, and harvest.

Finally, according to the Journal of Health Psychology, gardening is on the top of the list for improving the mood and decreasing cortisol level.  The cortisol is often referred to as the "stress hormone."

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