They are many reasons to grow your own food.

• Local economy
• Avoid chemicals
• Decrease oil consumption
• Healthier living
• Connection with plants
• Increase spirituality
• Save water!
• Decrease plastic production

As you can see there are many reasons why you should grow your own food. Local economies circulate the money in our communities, therefore distrubutes the wealth amongst us all instead of wealthy corrupt corporations. Another important reason is the extermination of pesticides in your food, we are not told about the danger that both people who consume and people who work in the field are harmed by these chemicals. They are a man made disaster that need to stop being used in our plants, just think about our water cycle. By growing your own food you will decrease the amount of oil consumption. Oil is a dirty source that harms all elements in this planet, the people who live by the refineries like Richmond and the environmenr that surrounds it. You will also feel the difference in your body when you start eating organically, you will loose weight too! By growing your own you will begin to grow a connection with the plants and all elements that we share this planet with. If you install a greywater system or a rain water catchment you can save water. And for those who don't know they are wars around the world due to water shortage, people are dying everyday because we have the luxuary of having our water come to us. Not to make you feel guilty but to motivate you to install a rainwater catchment! Did I mention that you can decrease the amount of plastic we consume, by growing your own you don't need plastic bags or plastic containers because the only traveling you will do is to your backyard! yaaaay! I am working on my own garden but I wanted to show you what motivated me to grow my own!