Thomas Jefferson's Indoor Garden
What would Thomas Jefferson like about an indoor garden? There are many cool reasons to do indoor gardening that he might point out. The economic and health benefits are striking. Here is the list:
Indoor Gardening Saves Money
It is much cheaper to grow some of the herbs and vegetables you need yourself than it is to buy your full supply at the grocery stores. As you probably noticed, food prices have systematically been budged up, a few cents at time, for many years. And it looks unlikely that will change. As more money is spent on feeding ourselves and our loved ones, less is available for other wants and needs. It appears that the prices of the basic necessities keep rising and may get to the point to where the bare necessities are all we can afford, no matter how much money the average home takes in. Growing some of your own food indoors and/or outdoors is a good way to combat efforts to pare down the average person's spending options. Also, if the cost of organic foods is the main reason you have not tried them then indoor gardening is a good way to go.
Indoor Gardening Health Benefits
Vegetables and herbs grown organically indoors or out do less physical damage to the indoor farmer because they are grown without pesticides and other harsh chemicals. Additionally, any plant, whether a tomato, herb, or flower, breathes in harmful carbon dioxide that humans exhale and breathes back back fresh, clean oxygen. This makes the air indoors and out better to breath.
Indoor Gardening Is Good Politically
One of the founding fathers of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, wanted America to be an agricultural nation. He thought this would help keep Americans free of corporate and political tyrants because all the individual citizens of America would have their own personal food supply that they could rely on whenever push came to shove politically and economically. He advised all Americans to maintain always personal ownership of five acres of growing land so suppliers could not dictate to the general citizenry. For those who don't have outdoor space to grow food in indoor gardening is a way for to guard against oppression. Centralized
Herbs Can Be Used As Medicines
For thousands of past years, before the widespread use of pharmaceuticals, herbs were used as medicine. Almost every medical ailment had a set of herbs that were commonly used to treat it. Herbal remedies fell out of wide use due to the marketing of pharmaceuticals in recent years but are making a big come back as people seek healing from every sort of ailment but lack the funds for extremely high priced pharmaceuticals and also want safer medicines. Herbal medicines are just what the doctor used to order. Medicinal herbs can be grown indoors successfully.
These are some of the main reasons it is good to grow your own plants indoors. As you can see the benefits are massive. Here is my...
Practical Philosophy Of Indoor Gardening
One thing I have noticed about us human beings is that we are compulsive problem solvers. We are constantly solving problems and processing information in order to do so. Problems cause us pain so we seek to solve our problems in order to end the pain caused by them so we will feel better. But the universe keeps on giving us problems to solve, for reasons of its own. The constant need to solve painful problems seems to have been designed into the human construction, and into any creature with a brain. The problems symbolize the main problem of the threat of death itself, the ultimate painful thing, we believe. Much of our problem solving has to do with obtaining food to end the pain of hunger and to thereby keep us and our loved ones alive and happy. Indoor gardening is a good way to solve the fundamental problem of life and also frees up money for solutions to discomfort. That is one good reason to employ indoor gardening.
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