FOOD SAFETY|EXPANDING FOOD|PRICE OF LIVING
However this isn’t the only benefit to be gotten from gardening
B ack in our standard life, before we sold everything to take a trip full-time in 2017, we expanded a lot of our very own food. We estimated that we expanded 70 % of our fruit and vegetables needs in our backyard. We didn’t necessarily do it to save money; we did it because we like to yard, plus we enjoyed the health and wellness benefits of eating health food.
We both see horticulture as an enjoyable challenge– a gigantic science experiment, if you will. We never get disturbed if something doesn’t expand, or doesn’t do what we think it should. To us, it is all component of the process. When points go sideways, we adjust, tweak and attempt once more.
To me, horticulture is a meditation. If you plunk me in a garden, I will toodle about and select at things for hours. Weeding, checking, getting rid of dead fallen leaves from things. Thinning the carrots, choosing the peas, talking to the plants. It is my silent area where the issues of the world disappear and the only point that matters is ensuring that my plants are happy to ensure that they can later feed me.