Lawns to Vegetable Gardens
Posted by momnature on November 16, 2007
Replacing lawns with gardens for growing your own vegetables offers far more benefits than just saving enormous amounts of fresh water. The benefits go far beyond healthy eating, too.
You see, if you were to ask where much of your so called fresh vegetables come from, you would likely find many of them are shipped thousands of miles by plane from other continents! Because of this, you may enjoy your favorites almost anytime of year, regardless of their growing season in your own area.
But this is really an unnecessary and wasteful luxury when your planet is already in crisis. By insisting on having whatever you want, whenever you want it, you are helping put the finishing touches on your own civilization.
If Mother Nature were in charge of making your earthly laws, I would either outlaw the practice outright, or apply a luxury tax so high that it would pay for all the damage done to the environment. But I, your Mother Nature, do not make your laws. So this is something you should lobby your lawmakers to do. If the value of the tax were accurately ascertained, no one could afford to buy these products, the number of intercontinental air flights would go down and much less CO2 would be added to the atmosphere.
So, you see? Basically a single individual could, by dropping the rather silly practice of growing and mowing a lawn, in favor of growing and eating vegetables, by influencing friends and neighbors to do the same, ultimately have positive effects that span continents! You will be saving fresh water and lowering greenhouse gas emissions too!
All starts with your making a rather simple lifestyle change toward healthier eating. It is up to you.
