07-01-2021, 02:11 PM
(06-30-2021, 06:46 PM)Littlemaster Wrote: The benefits I see are:Agreed!.. Except for the highlighted part where you should expect some back pain kicking-in from time to time, depending on the effort sustained during your gardening :-)
- I can earn knowledge about farming which will help me to share the same with my students.
- It will make me healthy, I may not need to go for Gym.
- May be getting better profit from the crops.
- I can make the land beautiful and atmosphere nice.
- To breathe fresh air inside our own garden will be one of the happiest feeling.
I had a similar pulse a year ago, when I left my downtown residence -in the middle of the lockdown- to our family residence 20km out of town that I'm managing ever since our Father passed away... It's a 10 acre land (4 hectares) with a couple of dozens of Olive trees, few Fig trees, Lemon trees, Mandarin trees, Pomegranate trees and a handful of Date trees.
The plan was to spend as much time outdoor as possible (remember that Vitamin D is a potent booster for the immune system!) The strategy was to start a vegetable garden and put to use my own Plant Biology knowledge and see all those complex ecological mechanisms/interactions at work..
A year or so later... I have many successful crop harvest to this day: coriander, mint, rosemary, basil, peppers (sweet + hot), potatoes, garlic, broad-beans, carrots, turnips, cucumbers and tomatoes, and I have a lot of them at this time of the year. But I also have a lot of failures: peas, lentils, beans etc.. But we'll keep at it!
It's insanely rewarding to eat your own home-grown vegetables!.. Lucky are those who can enjoy that!