Why Home Gardening so popular?
A garden with the right plants and trees can act as a natural air conditioner. Gardens reinforce the soil. Home gardening promotes sustainable agriculture. Gardens provide shelter for wildlife. And plus perk is garden is the most important place in this polluted world where we all are suffering from environmental crises some or the other way in form of diseases, water, air, wildlife extinction or disasters.
Effect of Gardening on Nature, Humans & Society
Gardening is good for a great many things. It can be good for your health, good for your soil, and good for the wildlife in your backyard. It’s a great way to relieve stress, to set goals for you, and to nurture something. On top of all that, growing your own produce is a great way to become more sustainable at home and to reduce your environmental impact. Gardening also happens to be a great hobby. It’s something that you can do season after season, year after year, and into your twilight years. This makes gardening a versatile hobby, as well as a healthy one. Gardening comes with a myriad of well-documented health benefits. The most obvious of these has to do with the fact that quite a bit of gardening is done outdoors. Exposure to sunlight increase your vitamin D, which is good for bones, teeth, and muscles. And speaking of muscles, gardening is a great form of low-impact exercise — high impact if you’re hefting huge pots or wheelbarrows of soil around. In terms of mental health, gardening has also been shown to decrease the risk of dementia and as a type of therapy for those already suffering from it, according to a study published by the journal Psychiatry Investig. This might have to do with the mental health benefits we experience just being in nature. Gardens, by virtue of the human-made nature of their construction, allow us a means to connect to nature in a sort of self-determined way. Gardens are important to the planet because, despite being human-made, they represent a natural environment. Plants and trees grow there, taking in carbon and releasing oxygen. The roots of these plants stabilize the soil and filter water. Municipal gardens and national parks become safe havens for all manner of wild creatures that might have been otherwise displaced by the endless urban sprawl of the modern world. Birds, bugs, and bees — especially honey bees — are essential to the lifecycle of the world at large. Your health, your frame of mind, your community, and the environment — if those are not enough reasons for why gardening is important, we have a few more to give you. Gardening can also be important for your wallet, nutrition, and environmental footprint. On top of all that, gardening is a great hobby that you can share with your children Teaching them to nurture a living thing and to be responsible for their own segment of the environment are great lessons to pass down.
Example of popular Home gardening
There are many social workers, people and you tubers who are encouraging kitchen or terrace garden by creating awareness through their works on social media platforms. Encouraged with them many people are fond of growing gardens in their home even in small balconies or kitchen or terrace areas.
Like for example – A story of a Ratlami Home gardener – The lovely pictures given above are not of a nursery, but of a nature lover’s house. This is the house of Madhurima Nigam, a resident of Rajbagh, Ratlam Madhya Pradesh, who has filled her house with more than 100 plants. In this lovely garden of hers, there are many beneficial, medicinal, commodity, indoor, outdoor, fragrant, flowering, historically important plants. The special thing is that she uses only natural manure which she makes by her own at home, many people come to see her beautiful garden, her news has also published on various news channels, portals etc. With this work, she is giving inspiration to many people, especially to the nearby residents. They do not it just for her hobby, they also have the knowledge of the name, importance, historical information and properties of all their plants. At the same time, she also gives a message to the society that we should fulfill our hobbies as much as possible when we get time and should be aware of nature and understand its importance and should also save it by contributing at our own levels. Her family supports her, & they also takes care of animal, birds & nature, nurturing & taking care of one street dog family making people aware to save street dogs. All over India many such examples are there who are motivating and inspiring us.
Why to do Gardening?
Gardening as a family offers a host of benefits, including promoting healthy eating and exercise habits as well as family bonding and stress relief. If you live in an urban area and/or don’t have a yard, consider an indoor garden, or working in a community garden, or kitchen and terrace gardening popular these days.
Even if you aren’t a seasoned gardener, you can still undertake a family garden. Simply aim to learn alongside your little ones. Whatever you choose to do, take the opportunity to educate and aware more and more people.
SOCIAL MEDIA HEADING –
- Home gardening a boon for nature
- Save Environment by gardening
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