Plant Your Own Garden For Earth Day!

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Baby Boomers are now growing their own organic vegetables and purchasing more organic food than any generation before them. This is good news for our earth! With all the bad press that Monsanto and their "Frankenfood" have generated lately, many of us are afraid to eat just about anything that's conventionally grown these days. In fact, I'm planning to turn my entire front yard into a vegetable garden this year! Growing our own organic greens and tomatoes assures us that we'll be eating the nutrients that our bodies need, without added chemicals. 

I wonder if perhaps one of the reasons that so many of us Baby Boomers are planting our own gardens again is that we remember what real food tastes like! It's not just nostalgia - everything did taste better when we were kids. It was real food.

If you are going to plant your own this year, remember that gardening can be tough on the body. It's important to stretch before you start your gardening project, and repeat afterward, to avoid back pain from stooping over your plants, digging and raking. One of my favorite back exercises is a slightly different take on the yoga pose, Bridge. Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, about hip distance apart. Bring your arms up toward the ceiling and clasp your hands together. Inhale as you tuck your tailbone in and slowly arch your back up into a strong Bridge pose, then push your arms toward the ceiling and exhale your back slowly down to the floor, one vertebra at a time. When you do it this way, it's easier to really feel one vertebra at a time. Repeat three or four times before gardening and then again afterword and your back will thank you!

Best of Health,

Kathi  

Apr 25, 2012 2:38 PM |Add a comment