Live Simply – Simply Live (food from your garden)

Grow fresh food and eat fresh - Get your bountiful bouquet of food straight from your garden.

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Food for health. Protecting what we love starts at home, and growing your own food, plants and flowers, brings benefits. Prepare a healthy future.

Growing your own food can help you ‘eat fresh’ and ‘healthier’ produce. When you plant your own food, you know exactly what goes into it – the gardening process is clean and simple, and also benefits the planet - contributing to a healthier planet (by reducing the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, transit costs, pollution, and industry food waste).

Diversify your palate with 'seasonal food'. Caring for your own garden and harvesting your own plants also means that you learn about seasonal foods, flavours and nutrients, and create healthy cooking habits. Cooking at home is a great way to start your wellness journey ('you' control what ingredients go into your cooking). Deliciously harvested ingredients, always fresh and colourful, with higher nutritional value, make better tasting food. Become an accomplished cook with recipe contents that give your dishes an oozing essence of taste and an appreciation for culinary art.

Get in tune with 'Mother Earth'. Loving your plants and trees means food is produced with nature's love and appreciation. As human beings, caring for our food creates a special connection to the food we grow. Caring for your plants is a hands on way of engaging in learning. Learning to grow food is also such a beautiful way to connect with other generations of food growers (parents, grandparents and friends), and to really take an interest in producing edibles that are fresh and flavoursome, and cook recipes that bring out the food flavours with more traditional methods. Creating your own food menu for your family is as original as it gets in the home kitchen.

Create your own garden oasis or fruit balcony. Grow fruits, herbs and vegetables with love, make a rainbow of flowers with plants and trees that speak to you (choose colours and varieties that make you feel at home, at peace, and connected to nature) and grow throughout the year, so there is always something to sprout and care for. One of the best kept secrets to delicious food is ‘love’. Food grown with love, tastes amazing. It’s nutritious for your body, and your soul.

Flowers bloom, and so should you. A beautifully shaded and textured tree and flower garden is also just as nourishing to the human well-being 'moment', as growing good food. Add flower power to your world with flowers and plants that will have you basking in the sun-glory of your garden bed oasis. Feed more on nature's blooms.

Get started: How to Start an Organic Garden in 9 Easy Steps - Grow your own delicious, healthful organic food (Source: Good Housekeeping)

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