- Children learn about the cycle of life
- It is relaxing working in the food garden, especially with music
- Exercises your body regularly
- Reduces food miles
- Teaches important skills for the future
- Helps combat climate change by sequestering carbon
- The food is tasty and nutritious
- Uses less water than normal agriculture methods
- Fun watching plants grow each day
- Keeps you in touch with the seasons and the way nature works
- Provides cheap food
- Easy to maintain
- Better variety of foods than one would normally buy
- In season food tastes better
- No packaging other than what nature intended
- No refrigeration required for most foods, just keeps on the plant until required
- Great talking point with friends
- Food gardens attract wonderful insects (and some not so wonderful ones)
- You get to find out where real food comes from
- There are beautiful flowers on most food plants
- Left over plants get recycled into compost as nature intended
- There is no waste by-products
- It delays Peak Oil by not requiring any fossil fuel to make
- You can pass on your food growing skills to others
- The joy of spending time in the food garden with family
- Your own food is healthy
- Excess food can be swapped with other food gardeners
- You can grow good not readily available in supermarkets
- It is all grown with human power!
- You don’t need advertising to convince you to buy or use your own food
- Saving seeds from the previous harvest is simple
- You can preserve excess for the off season
I don’t think that this list is comprehensive, but it kept me thinking for the entire week! Have fun food gardening.