Entry #6 Why We Should All Garden

If everyone knew how to garden the world would be a better place. 

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system. -Bill Mollison

We need to strive to be more connected with the environment because our health depends on it!
Gardening helps us connect to the earth and can even act as a stress reliever.

In a study conducted in Norway, people who had been diagnosed with depression, persistent low mood, or "bipolar II disorder" spent six hours a week growing flowers and vegetables.

After three months, half of the participants had experienced a measurable improvement in their depression symptoms. What's more, their mood continued to be better three months after the gardening program ended. The researchers suggest that the novelty of gardening may have been enough to jolt some of the participants out of their doldrums, but some experts have a much more radical explanation for how gardening might ease depression.

Here are some examples of problems that gardening can help us solve.


-Disease
-Energy Crisis
-Environmental Crisis
-Waste
-Famine

We should all educate ourselves on how to discipline ourselves into being able to garden. The only outcome of this are positive. People would be able to appreciate and learn the value of life personally.