Grow Your Own Food
If you want to be sure your food is healthy and fresh, grow it yourself.
Freshness and healthy soil are tow of the most important things that affect the nutrition and flavor of fruits and vegetables. To have control over the quality of your food, grow your own garden. Begin by selecting a location that is relatively flat with good drainage and gets six hours of sun a day. Decide what shape and size you want your garden to be. The main consideration is that your can reach each plant from the edge of the garden or from a pathway. A healthy soil has a balance of minerals and microbes, tiny living creatures that help release minerals so they can be taken in by plants.
Any easy way to prepare your garden bed for planting, keep the microbes happy, and eliminate weeds is to cover the bed with mulch material. You can loosen the soil with a shovel or pitchfork but no digging is needed. Begin with a thick layer of newspaper. Wet the newspaper and add leaves, compost and compost manure. Water the bed after adding each layer. Top it off with compost or good soil. Water the whole bed and your are ready to plant.
Using natural fertilizer such as compost and manure give the soil a broader range of nutrients and stay in the soil longer than chemical fertilizers. And natural process for controlling pests rather than toxic petsicides help keep the ecosystem healthy. In deciding what to gorw choose what vegetables you would like to eat and plants that grow well in your area.