Benefits for you and your family:

• Fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables.
• Inviting children in the garden can increase the chance that they will eat more of the fruits and vegetables they have helped to grow.

• Reduce the amount of pesticides that you use in your garden, making them healthier.
• Save you money at the grocery store.
• Gardening increases physical activity. It is a great way to engage the whole family in physical activity and lets them help to take responsibility for the garden.

• The fruits and vegetables grown in your garden will promote health because they are rich in nutrients, especially in phytochemicals, anti-oxidants, vitamin C, vitamin A and folate.
• Gardening gives you’re an appreciation for productivity when we can see the bounty of our efforts.
• Increased awareness appreciation for nature and seasons, with the opportunity to see how things grow.
• Gardening may stimulate many new interests. You may want to learn more about botany, landscape architecture, photography, nutrition, and farmer’s markets.
• Gardening gives you the opportunity to give back. If you have an abundant garden, you might give some of your produce to the local soup kitchen or food bank.
• Create memories with your children, memories that can last a lifetime.
• Your garden can lead to new skills, and knowledge for you and your family, your child may have a new found interest like becoming an organic or healthy foods chef!

Society and Community

• Gardens can foster a great sense of community through parent to parent connections, teacher to student or student to student.
• Schools and community may decide to build a community or school garden. This is a tremendous learning tool for all involved as well a providing a source of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
• A community/school garden can help to foster and motivate future leaders (e.g., 4-H afterschool programs).
• Neighborhood Community Gardens beautify landscape, support local farmers, can create a food secure community where residents do not need to rely on vendors to supply fresh produce.

Environment

• Tall fruit trees provide shade.
• You can use less pesticides or use natural pesticides and this will be less contamination to the environment.
• Produce peels and waste can create a lot of green waste and takes up a lot of space in the garbage can. Recycle them to make your own compost. It is less expensive than buying fertilizers.
• Turn unsightly lands into attractive landscapes.
• Get creative. There is a potential to grow an innovative gardens like futuristic horticulture gardens that are very cost-effective and require substantially less space.

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