Growing your own food can prove to beneficial to your health in many ways

Growing your own food starts with quality soil.  Organic soil is preferred due less toxins being exposed to your body.  A good way to start preparing your soil with little cost is to begin with your kitchen scraps and start composting.  By composting you have a continuous supply of quality fertilized soil full of dense nutrients for you to consume.

Kitchen scraps to use in compost and regrowing

1. Coffee grinds 
2. Tea bags
3. Hair from brushes
4. Used paper towels with no meat or toxic chemical exposure
5. Vegetable scraps from cooking (always raw only, and No potato peels)
6. Fruit peels and cores
7. Egg shells- adds calcium to the soil that will be absorbed by the food you eat
8. Non colored cardboard
9. Newspaper and shredded paper, non colored
10. Red worms to speed up composting and add more nutrients

Red Worms are a great additive to creating a quality soil environment whether you are growing in pots or the ground.  They are natural tillers, and their castings (worm poop) is an excellent fertilizer.  In addition, they help to break down your composting products faster.  The liquids from the red worms are referred to as worm tea.  This is an excellent liquid fertilizer. You will know their work is done when your soil is a nice deep rich colored, known as "Black Gold" 

 

Stop by your local sporting goods department and pick up a container for under $5.  If you  are in the local Carson City, NV area, please contact LifeCoach702@live.com for a starter red worm composting kit.

Things you can grow immediately from your kitchen scraps:

1. Green onion: put the roots in a small amount of fresh water until placing in soil
2. Round onions and shallots: core, and place in a small amount of fresh water until placing in soil
3. Celery: put the root in a small amount of fresh water until placing in soil
4. Bell peppers: core and let seeds dry, plant
5. Carrots:  put the roots in a small amount of fresh water until placing in soil
6. Avocados: Clean and peel seed.  Place in water using toothpick method until roots appear
7. Potatoes/Yams:  Place in water using toothpick method until roots appear
8. Cilantro: Place in small amount of water until roots form. Change water daily. Plant
9. Tomatoes: Scoop seeds out onto a paper towel. Let dry. Plant
10. Fruit seeds: Dry, peel, plant.

By growing your own food you know exactly what is placed into your garden soil.  You are less likely to be exposed to harmful pesticides.  There is an opportunity to take advantage of the the therapy experienced when gardening.  Most of all you will absorb more nutrients while dining on your fresh and more flavorful crops grown in your home garden.

HAPPY GARDENING!