Entry #7 Start a Backyard Garden

Do you know where your food has been? What chemicals have been dumped on it and what processes it has been through? Well unless you grew it yourself, there is no way to know for sure. And what you don’t know might hurt you and the environment.

There’s a highly informative Documentary called Fresh that details some of the more terrifying and damaging aspects of our current industrial farm system. The film tells of the astonishing amounts of pesticides that are

“dumped” on the crops and the chemical fertilizers that are used to make the crops grow. Not only are these chemicals bad for the person that consumes them, but also for the environment that they spread into. A lot of these chemicals can be avoided by buying organic, but that can get expensive.  

In the documentary, we are introduced to a man named Will Allen. He is an urban farmer that is able to feed a whole neighborhood out of his backyard. Now there’s a great idea! How about starting a garden in your own backyard? It’s inexpensive, reduces your environmental impact, and you will know exactly where your food is coming from.

But you don’t have a green thumb, or maybe you think you don’t have the space or time to start a garden in your backyard. Well there are a multitude of solutions for you:

If you don’t have the time or space look into a barrel garden.

 

Or how about a Mobile Vegetable Patch.

And then there's also hydroponics.                 

Odds are there is a solution to your unique garden needs.While it may seem like a lot of work at first, once you taste the fruits of your labor from your backyard garden, it will all have been worth it.