How To Grow Healthy Food
By Linda Paquette, Fri Dec 9th
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How to Grow Healthy Food
To grow healthy food, you literally have to start at rockbottom. No matter what you’re growing, from chickpeas tochickens, the truth is that you are what they eat!
It’s no secret that all life begins with the soil. Although itmay look like dirt to the naked eye, organically rich soil is aliving, breathing community of microorganisms. These littledenizens of the dirt are born, grow, breed, give birth and dieleaving an estate of nutrition-filled remains to the soil. Whilethey live, many of these little critters feed on undesirableelements like harmful bacteria.
Every year, gardeners spend thousands of dollars on chemicalfertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that are little morethan a quick fix to gardening problems and create long-termhealth hazards for everyone, from humans to single-celledorganisms in the soil. If you really want to grow healthy food,the first step is to keep your underground colony in goodhealth.
There are two things you need to do to maintain healthy soil.The first is to keep out the chemicals. The second is to addrich organic matter to your soil at regular intervals. Keep outthe chemicals
No matter what amount of chemical you use in your gardening, adrop is a deluge to a microorganism. More to the point, mostchemicals
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