Why You Should Grow Your Own Food

When you’ve already got a lot to do and life is busy, the idea of growing your own food might feel like a step too far – why add yet another job to the to-do list when you’ve got so many other things on there already?

If that’s how you feel, you’re not alone, and the temptation to go to the grocery store and buy things quickly and easily might always be there. However, when you realize just how many benefits growing your own food can bring to your life, you might be more motivated to give it a go. Read on to find out what some of those benefits are.

Healthier

One of the biggest reasons to grow your own food is that it’s healthier and tends to have a lot more nutritional value than anything you can buy in the store, including things that are labeled as fresh. The truth is that the products you buy in the supermarket are often grown to look good, but that means they might be missing some of their nutritional value. The things you grow at home might be wonky or a strange shape or a different color than what you might expect, but they’ll be much better for you.

Plus, when you grow your own food, you’ll have complete control over how you do it, including the chemicals and pesticides you use – or, even better, don’t use. You can make your products as healthy as possible by adding nutrients to the soil or growing them in a certain way, ensuring you’re eating the very best.

Less Environmental Impact

Another great reason to grow your own food is that you’ll have much less of an impact on the environment. You can reduce your carbon footprint drastically because you won’t be going to the store so much, for example, and you’ll be using fewer chemicals.

Plus, your food won’t have to travel anywhere, so there won’t be any food miles to consider. On top of that, there’ll be less food waste, too, as you’ll only pick what you need, and if you install a garbage disposal unit, you can minimize food waste even more by thoughtfully disposing of peel and other waste. 

You’re not the only one who’ll benefit from the positive environmental impact growing your own food will bring either; when you have different vegetables and fruit in your yard, you’ll have more wildlife around, including bees which are endangered and need all the help they can get.

Cost Savings

Everything mentioned above is great and definitely should be reasons to help you start growing your own food, but the fact that you’ll save a lot of money as well might be what really persuades you to get started.

When you grow your own food, you’ll need to invest in the seeds and tools to start with. You might have to buy fertilizer and compost, too, and you’ll need to invest some time and energy into getting things set up. However, once that’s done, you don’t have to buy so much at the store anymore, and when you see how much you’re saving, you’ll be glad you made yourself a vegetable garden to be proud of.