You might be wondering how I'm going to post about gardening if I can't have a garden in winter. You'll see. . .
Anyways, this should be interesting, because Dragomir is here to add his views to it. (I didn't know he gardened until yesterday.)
Today, I am talking about organic gardening.
Why should you garden organically?
1) Pesticides
Many plants at grocery stores are covered in pesticides, or in pesticide residue. Pesticides are used to kill pests, so it makes sense fruits and veggies would be covered in them.
There are plenty of studies showing the effects of pesticides. However, few studies have been done long-term on humans with pesticides ingested through food. Even if you wash your fruits, greens, and veggies, some of the pesticides still remain. Laws limit the amount of pesticides allowed to be used on plants intended for eating, but still, the purpose of pesticides is to kill pests. If something's sole purpose is to kill, how bad is the build-up of pesticides in our bodies?
Now, I am not trying to implant in your brains a fear of food from the grocery store, but I do think it's better to eat organic.
Dear Readers, I do believe she is trying to impress upon you the good and right fear of food acquired at the grocery store. The only way to stay safe from this impending threat is to avoid it utterly.
And that is the extreme version of what I was trying to say.
3) GMOs
GMO: Genetically Modified Organism
As Mrs. Seleshanko clarifies in her profound work entitled: Grow the Dirty Dozen, some produce and or packaged food is engineered using Genetically Modified Organisms. Furthermore, Mrs.
2) The Cost of Gardening Organically as Compared to the Cost of Buying Organically or Buying Non-Organic Food
As one celebrated quote proclaims: "When I get a little money I buy books, and if I have any left I buy food and clothes." -Erasmus
Although this is not, in any sense, practical, I presume that you, dear Readers, would realize the truth of this quote. As implied, gardening in the organic sense is considerably more affordable. This would cause one to conjecture, thereafter, that one would attain a larger budget for books.
If you buy a packet of organic seeds for about $3.50, and get maybe 20-100 seeds, and about half of them come up, you are saving much more money than even getting a seedling for the same amount of money. Not to mention, you are saving much more than getting a couple of the fruit/vegetables at the grocery store. Not to mention, (again) that organic foods are much more expensive than non-organic foods. And, yes, as Dragomir mentioned, this means you have more money for books.
And that is why you should garden organic, Friends!
Spruce Nogard
Dragomir Volkov
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