Community Garden On Campus

The community garden on campus teaches the community to care for the earth. Meanwhile, this properly teaches them new skills such as gardening, and harvesting the plants. Visiting the garden was a beautiful and delightful experience, the women who told us about the garden were extremely sweet and informative. They advised us on the best season to plant and garden specific vegetables. Gardens such as this one bring people together; likewise our garden is a calm, and happy environment for people. It allows everyone an opportunity to stop by enjoy the crops, gardeners, and picnics that are available on a beautiful day. It is an endearing spot on campus, I wish I knew about sooner. In addition, people who have not gardened before are able to go …show more content…
There are amazing opportunities for everyone in the community including students to utilize the resources of the garden at Monmouth. In addition, the food that is grown in the garden is organic and fresh unlike fruit bought from the grocery store which contain pesticides to preserve the freshness and color. If people had their own gardens and consumed organic food, there would be less chemicals consumed and health problems overall. Vegetables and fruit provide antioxindants and nutrients in our body, and knowing exactly how it was processed, the upkeeping, and care for the vegetables that we are consumming has more value in our minds and in our health. Pollen discusses how crops growing in chemical fertilizers grow quickly but have less opportunity to accumalte more mutrients. While, organically grown plants roots are smaller, the decomposition of organic matter releases more nutrients than chemically inclined plants. Meanwhile, orgnaic plants have components that defend them from pets and diseases, being forced to defend themeelves considdering they aren’t sprayed with …show more content…
Not too Much. Mostly plants; this shows the that we need to eat vegetables and stay away from fatty foods, and food with chemicals, and gluten. He inspires me in many ways, nutrition is important in all of our lives, and we should be informed as well as realize the chemicals we put in our body along with the health claims compainies put on their products. We are misguided with certain food such as low carb cookies, or low fat brownies. Companies take products that are more natural away, and put more chemicals in to give us that happpiness that we are eating something that is “better” for our health. Pollen makes us realize that we have to put into consideration and be aware of the aftermath from the foods we consume. Food breaks downinto yyour body, but putting harsh cemicals, soy, and food with corn into the equation the food takes a longer time to process in the body. An notletting it function to its greatest potential. Lastly, he really shows us the foods we should be consuming, and the foods we shouldn’t. We all still consume brownies, cakes, and ice cream with tons of sugar; but we hope that it won’t take a large toll from putting these foods into our system