Chapter 10 - Grow a Garden Just for the Health of It

It's Not Nice to Bully Mother Nature

I've learned more about being healthy from gardening than I ever learned in the classroom or from books and magazines about human nutrition.

 

Keeping a garden healthy is pretty simple.  

A little fresh air.  A little sunshine.  

A drink of water every now and then plus the occasional good meal of compost and fertilizer.  Not much to it.

People, I've come to realize, respond to the very same health promoting principles.  

We get into trouble, just like gardens do, when we tinker with Mother Nature.

The Herb Garden - Before 

Sometimes gardens require a modest amount of intervention like picking off the bad bugs or cutting back plants back to encourage new growth.

But these are gestures of love for your garden not over management.

We get into trouble when we ignore Mother Nature's basic principles for good garden health and try to bully her into doing things our way.

The same can be said about people.  

Keeping healthy is pretty simple.  

A little fresh air.  A little sunshine.   

A drink of water every now and then plus the occasional good meal of produce from the garden rather than compost and fertilizer.  Not much to it.  

And, like a garden, the only interventions we require are those that come as gestures of love.