Is it time for you to up your nutritional game?
Who does not want to be healthy and feel vibrantly alive? The food you eat is a crucial aspect of health, abundant energy and mental clarity and focus.
Is it time for YOU to up your nutritional game, make different food choices and grow a LOT more of your own, pesticide free food?
If you are on this site, you probably know that for your own optimal health and well-being eating pesticide free food grown in alive, healthy, mineral rich soil is best. It is vital for your general health, immunological and gut health as well as mental health…and equally so for your family, the farm workers, the environment and wildlife, the planet in general.
The vision I am sharing here with you is:
To create a stunningly beautiful and abundantly productive 100% pesticide free food, herb and flower garden – nourishing body and soul and in harmony with nature.
- Provide nutrient rich fresh produce year-round for the local community and visitors.
- Create lots of spaces within that garden for native plants, beneficial insects, birds, amphibians and more.
- Inspire deep respect for nature and what she has to offer us.
- Create a beautiful harmonious garden oasis that nourishes the soul and energetic level of being for all who visit or see pictures of it.
- Grow herbs and medicinal plants for sale.
- Make seeds available to the community nationwide.
Grown without use of any pesticides (the property I am volunteering on has never seen pesticides) and with companion plants for beneficial insects, interspersed native plants and native bees. So what can YOU do now, today, this week, to up your nutritional game?
Given the changing climate and political/food chain uncertainties, it is high time to start growing your own food wherever you can, even if it means sprouting in mason jars or growing microgreens on your windowsill.
There are many ways to grow your own food. Popular and most accessible these days are
- growing microgreens – great for anyone
- sprouting – available in the smallest of spaces
- growing towers made of plastic with growing solutions that provide all the necessary nutrients, except the bacterial flora from the soil. But who knows, it might be in the cards too. There are
- other hydroponic food growing systems,
- grow container gardens,
- straw bale gardens,
- no till lasagna gardening,
- permaculture and
- biodynamic gardening.
- raised bed gardening
Which one will you try?
Or maybe you want to look for organic farmers near you and buy produce directly from them? That too is a great plan.
We opted for raised beds and about 150 of these tiny babies will need a good home soon:
And these here are the humble raised bed beginnings,
made with old, repurposed wood.
Raised beds give you better control over the soil, warms up faster in the spring and, using gopher protection, you don’t lose up to 50 % of your crop to gophers. It makes for easier weeding and easier path maintenance. Also, you don’t need to bend down quite so far.
Growing in raised bed doesn’t mean not growing in the soil directly, that is also happening.
Currently, we are aiming for a winter crop of kale, cabbage and chard.
I am a big believer in reusing discarded materials, and that is mostly what you are looking at in these images, DIY raised beds, being filled with weeded material, kitchen scraps, chicken coop litter when available and soon, it all will be covered with a basic soil mixture.
I am sharing this here in the hope to get your interest piqued and your imagination going as to how YOU can grow food where YOU live, with means available to YOU.
Take charge of your nutrition, make it part of your daily practice, your daily flow of life, your connection with nature and ALL THAT IS.
Maybe you say: but I don’t have land, so I can’t do that. Okay, please see above options of sprouting and growing micro greens.
Apart from that, well, neither do I – own land that is.
My gardening project, which is becoming an “our” gardening project as more people get involved, is happening in the community garden of IDHHB (Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being).
If you ever attended a workshop at IDHHB, (before covid) you might recall the quality of the food being served.
It is our goal to only serve food with the highest vibration, nourishing body and soul.
That naturally begins way before cooking it and includes respectful treatment of old and new resources, the animals, plants and soil involved. It works with the natural rhythms of nature, and plant spirits, though I don’t go as far as biodynamic growing (simply because it is too much to handle atm).
There are currently communities being set up in various parts of the country, all of which have as part of their goal to grow food. You can volunteer in an established community garden when you outgrow your windowsill or patio garden.
Disclaimer: establishing and maintaining a garden is work, which for me is good work, work that contributes to overall well-being both mentally and physically.
It is grounding, calms the nervous system, re-connects with a part of being human that sustains us: nature.
Materials that can be reused will be reused, materials that can be self made, will be self made if at all possible.
Seeds that can be saved and distributed – might end up at your house soon, if you wish. Stay tuned for blessed seeds.
This is the beginning of a beautiful journey, and we’ll be learning a lot in the process.
Are you inspired to learn and grow in leaps and bounds, taking charge of your nutritional health? Come along on this journey. Share what you are doing in the comments.
Check out this page How to eat for Optimal Health