Vegetable & fruit gardening
Growing your own food can:
- Provide you with some food independence
- Allow you control over your food supply
- Help you encourage pollinators and improve the soil health in your area
- Teach you and your family – especially children! – about important biological systems
- Help you manage food waste, via composting
Organic gardening means that you are growing your own fruits and vegetables (as well as flowers and lawns) without herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. This means no Miracle Grow, RoundUp, or TurfBuilder. Why? Because our ecosystems developed without these additives, and many studies suggest that they deplete soil resources and harm wildlife.
EU review of studies on organics and human health
UN summary of organics’ impact on the environment, with linked studies
MORE INFORMATION – podcast & video
Joe Gardener podcast - discusses everything from mulch and compost to the “agrihood” movement (communities planned around a farm).
Though Phoebe’s Pure Food Two Weird Hungry Girls podcast has been discontinued, the older episodes are a great source of information about local foods - based in Lancaster, the last episode focused on Kimberton Whole Foods!
The Organic Gardener Podcast - solid information about gardening the organic way.
Growing a Greener World – a PBS organic gardening show.