Go Green--Food vs Health

Being Retired, Tired, and feeling unemployed I have been spending some time preparing the garden for spring planting. This year I will be using straw bales as a planting media to avoid leaving a large carbon footprint emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I would like to also talk about the benefits of going green on health and wellness.

The other day i walked into one of our community resources, the Public Library, and was impressed with a free magazine article in the April 2009 Tastebud. The Magazine if filled with gardening articles, adds for local restaurants, and coming events.

I was impressed with an article "Make leafy greens part of your diet."

The important part of this article lists the benefits gained from going green:

1, gain life energy
2. prevent cancer
3. cut down on joint inflammation
4. help your immune system
5. feel mentally well and avoid depression
6. remove drug or toxin from your body
7. improve circulation
8. add antiseptic benefits
9. take advantage of anti-radiation benefits
10 improve digestive enzymes
11. add trace minerals
12. purify blood
13. promote healthy intestinal flora
14. improve liver, gall bladder and kidney function
15. clear up congestion
16. strengthen lung and respiratory system
17. prevent osteoporosis

Going Green appears to be the way to go!

You can contact the author of the article at her website www.healthfulelements.com for further information on going green with food.

Our local community is full of resources to help us meet this goal. Every Thursday there is a class at the Community Garden. Good information for the beginning gardener and the advanced gardener is readily available. This past Thursday the director of the center demonstrated planting potatoes in the Community Garden demonstration plot. He had waited until after all danger of frost as many gardeners in the area plant on St. Patric's day and saw their crop freeze to the ground. The Community Garden center also sells plants grown in the greenhouse and I am eagerly awaiting the new tomato plants due to come out the last week in April.

I have plans to add green bell peppers to my straw bails and to continue planting greens in my container gardening venture. This year I will try cucumber plants in one bale letting them fall over the side of the bale and run around the bale. Marigold flowers will help serve as bug control throughout the garden.

I await any suggestions from other Green Growth gardeners and invite them to Google me at myhobbyroom.blogspot.com to see other blogs on this topic.