Chooseday Tip: Grow your own food, improve your health.

“ Backyard gardening can inspire you to take an interest in the origin of your food and make better choices about what you put on your plate”, Dr. Helen Delichatsios.

Image: Cabbage seeds

When you grow your own food, you savor it more because of the effort it took to get it to the table.

Benefits of growing your own food:

- It helps you eat more fresh fruits and vegetables

- You decide what kind of fertilizers and pesticides come in contact with your food.

- It lets you control when to harvest your food. Vegetables that ripen in the garden have more nutrients than some store-bought vegetables that has likely been picked too early.

8 Steps to growing your own food:

1. Find the right spot to start

2. Plan ahead and get the season of crops

3. Mix up your crops, don’t just plant one thing

4. Know your soil

5. Enrich your soil (compost)

6. Add water daily

7. Cover up from pests

8. Harvest timely