From Plot to Plate: The Advantages of Tending a Home Garden

In my country farming is one of the best occupations people venture into, farming is the means of cultivating and harvesting crops, this is what our forefathers knew as an occupation not in this modern generation we have many sources of living, farming is what our forefathers do with passion not because they are poor but because the way it relieves them from wasting money unnecessarily is what most people are avoiding. Having the means of providing your food is always the best, it has so many health benefits, and it saves us from feeding on fertilizer because most vegetables and fruit we are buying from the market now are produced through the means of fertilizer

My mother loved to have a small garden at the back of the house where she planted all the vegetables, at first I thought this was very stressful and she didn't want to spend money buying things from the market but later I realized that all those food we harvested from the garden is doing more good to the family and it reduces unnecessary spending.

This is my cassava garden

This is the process of making cassava flakes

This is how I clear my garden

Getting my food from my garden has been a thing of joy, I do not bother to enter the market whenever I feel like cooking and also I get all my vegetables fresh from the source, not the ones they planted with fertilizer, and then bring them to the market.

This is scent leaves from my garden

Having a garden has helped me a lot and still helping me, I remember the time I tried planting cassava in my garden, I thought it would never germinate but with more effort and weeding it came out good then I processed it and I turned it to cassava flakes, this reduced my expenses for that month and it is less stressful since I am doing it around the house.

Having a garden can leave you with many options, I decide what I want from my garden and anytime I want it, decide on the type of food I would love to eat, and get all my ingredients fresh from my garden, I eat fresh food always unless I chose to go out.

THERE ARE MANY BENEFITS OF HAVING A GARDEN IN THE HOUSE
Firstly I want to talk about the health benefits, whenever I come back from work and look so tired or my mental health has been tampered with, I love to find solace in my garden, Gardening has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, The act of caring for plants and being in a natural environment can have a calming and therapeutic effect.

Another benefit I get from my garden is that it increases my physical activity which helps me improve my fitness and reduce the risk of having excess weight.

One of the major benefits I get from my garden is the ability to have access to fresh foods, this always makes me healthier and reduces reliance on store-bought produce. My garden means a lot to me and other people benefit from it as well.

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