Nutrition & Wellness Common Sense

There are so many reasons who everybody SHOULD grow their own vegetables, that the list just goes on and on….

…. it’s easy… it’s fun… it’s cheap… it’s environmentally friendly… it reduces your carbon footprint by reducing the number of air miles your food has to travel… it’s healthy… it’s healthier…

But for the purposes of this blog, I am going to concentrate on just one aspect:

 IT’S HEALTHIER.

It is healthy to eat vegetables – it is far healthier to eat the vegetables that grow out of your garden.

I am not here to list all the reasons why - you are intelligent, you know why. You are eating foods that are in season, you are harvesting them at the optimal time for maximum nutritional value and you are at least eating them in the same week that they were picked – most likely the same day! Show me a supermarket vegetable that can make that claim!

The purpose of this blog is to link ‘Nutrition & Wellness’ with ‘Common Sense’.  Blueberries may be a ‘superfood’ but where is the common sense in eating a blueberry that was grown in Kenya, packed into a plastic container and flown hundreds of miles to be stored in a cold container for a week before you ever get to taste it. That blueberry may have been feeling ‘super’ whilst it was growing on the bush but how ‘super’ do you think that blueberry really is by the time it reaches you?

By linking the foods that are in season at any particular time with some easy tips on how you can grow them for yourself, I hope to give you a common sense approach to nutrition and wellness. I will also be linking common foods to common body types and showing you which foods you should be eating for You. – In life the ‘One Size Fits All’ rarely works and that is also most definitely true for your nutrition. There is no one set of foods that are ‘super’ for everybody. It depends on your body type and your lifestyle – whether you are in balance or out of balance with your ‘Self’. I will be sharing with you some basic advice from Ayurveda  – the ancient Indian medicine of balance and wellness – and showing you how you can relate this to what you eat and what you grow. 

Over the years, and with the things I have studied, I learned to take a much more holistic look at food and exercise and stop labelling one food or one lifestyle ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ until I had related it fully to the individual.

So this is definitely not just another ‘eat right’ site telling you which foods you should be eating, it is about learning to eat what is right for YOU (and if you can grow it at the same time, then double bonus!)

In fact that is my one big food philosophy: “Eat natural”. I believe the more natural your food is, the more nutritious it is going to be for your body & the more easily your body can assimilate those nutrients. The further away its ‘natural state’ that a food gets, the less good it is for you.

It makes sense to me. I hope it makes (common) sense to you!

ANYONE Can Grow Their Own Vegetables!

If you are completely new to growing vegetables, maybe you have wanted to for a while but don’t have a clue where to start, then this is the right place for you! The aim of this blog is simple: My Dad helped me to get going and so I asked him to help you! If you have a fork, a hosepipe and some soil, then you too can ‘Grow What You Eat’ – Happy Gardening

… And Everybody SHOULD!

There are so many reasons who everybody SHOULD grow their own vegetables. But for the purposes of this blog, I am going to concentrate on just one aspect: IT’S HEALTHIER. It is healthy to eat vegetables – it is far healthier to eat the vegetables that grow out of your garden. By linking the foods that are in season at any particular time with some easy tips on how you can grow them for yourself, I hope to give you a common sense approach to nutrition and wellness.

Introducing “2 Minute Vegetable Growing Tips For Complete Novices” – The Video Series For Complete Beginners

Introducing “2 Minute Tips For Complete Novices” – the video series for complete beginners. Not sure where to start? How big your vegetable patch should be? What to grow? When to plant? When to harvest? Neither was I. This video series is designed to get you up and running and harvesting your very own vegetables! Video One: Introducing Steady Eddie

Getting Started – Where To Put Your Vegetable Patch

“2 Minute Gardening Tips For Complete Novices” – the video series for complete beginners. This video series is designed to get you up and running and harvesting your very own vegetables! How big your vegetable patch should be? where should it Go? What if you have a shady garden? Video Two: Where To Put Your Vegetable Patch

Easy Vegetables To Grow For Complete Beginners

“2 Minute Gardening Tips For Complete Novices” – the video series for complete beginners. This video series is designed to get you up and running and harvesting your very own vegetables! What are the easiest vegetables to grow? Video Three: Easy Vegetables To Grow For Complete Beginners

Tips On Maintaining Your Vegetable Patch

   Click To View Once plants are established, spray once a week with a good, multipurpose bug killer (available off the shelf at any DIY or garden centre) Protect against the Pigeons! Don’t forget to weed & water!! View the “2 Minute Tips On Growing Vegetables For Complete Novices” tips and advice here:   http://www.youtube.com/user/OpportunityPlus#p/a/u/0/RFk0Unj25To