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This is our second post on as many that we our concentrating on the benefits of landscaping and gardening around your home. When it comes right down to it you can garden anywhere you would like to as long as you get the benefits of getting your body in motion and enjoying the fresh are around you. Community gardens are also a great alternative to getting your green thumb going. Here are some great reasons that gardening is good for you from Kristen K Brown of the Minneapolis Health and Happiness Examiner…
Some people can’t imagine why some other people love digging in the
dirt. It’s a messy job that gets our clothes, hands, and, inevitably,
face, dirty when wiping the sweat from our brows. It requires patience
while we wait for our plants, flowers and produce to reach their full
potential. It takes time to dig, water, weed and prune to keep our
plantings beautiful. So why do so many people love the act of gardening
when it’s messy, time-consuming and require
The benefits of gardening greatly outweigh the downsides. For so many,
gardening is therapeutic |
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This year, the vegetables served at the White House will be as locally grown as possible–right on the South Lawn. After a campaign by gardeners and sustainable food activists, the First Family has decided to dig up part of the White House grounds for a vegetable garden. In a ceremony Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama and local elementary school students will break ground for the project.
It's part of the first lady's promotion of healthy food for her daughters, Malia and Sasha, as well as for the nation. While the Clintons did have a small rooftop garden that grew vegetables and herbs and Laura Bush made sure organic foods were served in the residence, this is the first full-scale planting on the lawn in more than 60 years–since Eleanor Roosevelt had a Victory Garden during World War II.
Well, we lived through another presidential inauguration last week and it seems everything I watched or read had something to do with it. I was thinking about how the inauguration impacted with gardening when sure enough I read a newspaper article about how an organic gardener and food activist named Roger Doiron from Scarborough, Maine, has started a campaign to pressure President Barack Obama to grow veggies on the Whitehouse grounds. A sort of victory garden. The garden would not only provide food for the first family but all excess would go to the local….
