HEALTHY HOME GARDENING SIGNIFIES HEALTHY LIVING

       How can you make sure that the fruits and vegetables you often buy in the market is safe? Even if they are bright and fresh in condition, we do not have clues whether they are sprayed with unknown chemicals or not. What could be the possible and the most efficient way to make ourselves safe and gain more nutrition and not diseases from these plants? The answer is clearly enclosed in the Nutrition Month 2018's theme: "Ugaliing magtanim, Sapat na nutrisyon aanihin".

        As the theme says, it's focus is on us. On how we engage ourselves to plant on our own and also making it as a habit or maybe as a part of our good lifestyle. The theme could also be a motivation for us to be more practical citizens. This could possibly bring up a change and build a life-changing activity applicable to everyone.

      "Ugaliing magtanim", This doesn't only mean about our farmers with their work but it also encourages us to be one of them by just simply planting on our backyard. We could apply this habit with the use of vacant pots, making plant boxes or better having a home garden. Home gardening is not just for one but for all of us. In the theme, home gardening has it's important role. It could help a family have a safer and ore nutritious foods as well as vegetables and fruits. This can also be a key to lessen the acquired diseases from the used or sprayed chemicals on plants. Home gardening can also be a way to describe the state of your life: healthy or unhealthy living. It is also a nice way to give time to yourself and to your family and bond at times. Home gardening doesn't just pertains on planting flowering, non-flowering or herbal plants. Thus, it includes planting of vegetables like squash , eggplants, lady finger (okra), horse radish (malunggay), bitter gourd and a lot more. It could also be planting of different fruits like apple, banana, grapes oranges, mangoes, dragon fruits and other beneficial and well-known fruit bearing plants. Home gardening can also lessen the amount of expenses in going to the market because it is just simply gathering what you've planted. And as long as I know, home gardening already exist even before and a long time ago.

     "Sapat na nutrisyon aanhin", this second part of the theme works on and makes sense on what value we could have from what is explained on the first part of the theme which is all about home gardening. This interprets the benefits we could attain when we will plant or do the home gardening. What could possibly it's significance? Simply, we could prevent some diseases because it's safer if you will be the one to plant and at the same time, the one to harvest and have it's nutrients. Our body can build a healthier figure when we'll eat what we've planted. We could also be away from the danger caused by malnutrition. We can make sure about it's safeness to eat than those that we buy in the public markets. We know that they are fresh and good upon being reaped.

     In it's totality, you, your family and your community can make it possible. Planting is a way of giving life and color to your world. Planting is a way of caring not only for our nature's sake but this is also a way of loving ourselves. By simply eating these vegetables and fruits planted and harvested from your mini home garden, every member will obtain a well-conditioned body.

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-https://scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0401/art/ill-00.jpg

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