Gardening Your Way to Better Health

Anybody who has ever tried their hand at gardening will put themselves into one of two categories; those with green thumbs, and those who are all thumbs. People with green thumbs are natural born growers, they can make anything they plant grow and thrive. People who don't have green thumbs are usually the ones who have an interest in gardening, but every time they try to grow something, or even keep it alive, it shrivels up and dies.

Gardening has been around since the beginning of time, and has become more popular for what it once was, and for the many new reasons of today. The homesteader of years ago planted, plowed, and picked for basic survival. He couldn't find a whole foods store to go and buy all his organic foods from, he had to harvest his, and sometimes even an entire village worth of people's, food to survive. Now the agriculturists of today have many more reasons for harvesting the land that include the altruistic and aesthetic varieties.

Gardening is one of those things that can come off as being very unappealing at first glance, especially when you start off with an unkempt piece of land and have no idea where to start. To get yourself to the state of mind that opens it and your eyes, you need to realize that no matter what condition the land is in, it s a living breathing entity; a living entity that has the power to sustain us, with or without our help. But we cannot say the same about it, and we cannot live without it.

Getting down to level of the soil is a good way to stretch our bodies. As we let our hands and fingers dig deep into the ground, we are allowing ourselves to experience life on a whole other level, not just from where our bodies meet the ground with our feet. But the life that exists and goes on without detection or voice, so that we can continue to go on. This life that already exists even with no visible flowers or fruit, is waiting to have contact with us, and will respond to us. With respect to what we plant, if we are mindful to plant crops that will be able to easily thrive in the area and soil type that we plant them in; we will experience the wonder of having taken part in the creation of new life.

For any time or effort that we put into the soil, and the things it grows, we get a hundred fold in return. We can choose to be considerate and plant one thing at a time, in the correct climate and condition for what we are planting. We can choose to plant flowers that will scent the air around us with fragrances more exquisite than any that man can make. And we can carefully tend to fruit trees that will yield fruit sweeter than candy.

There really is no way to become this close to nature and its wonders and not start to feel the bounty of health and peace that the garden plants within us each time we go out to tend to it.

The author writes about gardening, in particular organic gardening.http://www.organic-gardening.net/