Live the Organic Life

Living organically is healthier for your body. Your body has the ability to shed off natural harmful bacteria and microorganisms that attack your system. Eating foods that have additives, and preservatives inside, or consuming meat, poultry and dairy products that have been pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones, this interferes with your natural body system. The additives and preservatives places everything within your body into an imbalance.

Although there are no long-term studies supporting living organically, many experts and supporters claim that eating organic foods and leaving behind harmful chemicals is the right path to take.

Some pesticides and cleaning agents (although not harmful right when they are used) can do their damage after they are used spilling out into the yard, eventually harming the earth and all life underneath.

We throw to much garbage into our landfills. We throw refuse into our oceans. By living organically, you become aware of the problems of polluting the land and waterways.

Starting a compost pile, you will find your garbage output lessens. You are rewarded by rich soil, healthy plants and hardy vegetables. What the earth has given to you, you can now put back. Even something as simple as not buying disposable diapers, but using cloth ones, washing the diapers in biodegradable laundry soap can make a positive impact on the land. Disposable diapers are the third largest item thrown away in land fills. One diaper will decompose only after 500 years!

Pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, commercial fertilizers all used in common gardening and on most farms gets washed eventually into the water table. Either by run-offs of heavy rains or by irrigating the plants the poisons slowly leach down into the earth or run off to streams and creeks. As the toxins find their way, they leave destruction in their path, poisoning anything living that gets in its way.

Save the soil!

Erosion plays a major part in why folks turn to organic growing. Land that does not have good, holding topsoil and plants year-round tends to erode easily. Heavy winds and rains help the erosion along and the muddy water finds its way into the waterways adding to the pollution factor. Cover plants and mulch help to hold the soil together and the plants grown year-round add to the strength by their roots taking hold in the dirt.

Deciding to live organically means that there is a need for a person to first understand the balance of nature. How one living organism can benefit from our actions in our garden, or on our farm. How they merge together into one beneficial ecosystem, each supporting the other in various ways.

Living organically can be a potential moneymaker. Once your harvest begins to produce luscious, ripe fruit and ready-to-eat fresh vegetables, people will beat a path to your door.

If you compost, you can harvest the earthworms and begin to create yet another cottage industry, earthworm farming, selling off the all organic fertilizer to nearby farmers and neighbors.

Farm land is vanishing quickly. We don’t know where you live, but large acres of farmland are being snapped up quickly and housing developments are being built, along with mini malls and RV parks. What land you have, for gardening or crop planting needs to be protected. The soil should to be nurtured and respected.

Organic gardening is the measure of respect the land deserves.