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Witch are the benefits of a personal garden?

Gardening, in itself, can produce the most  healthiest, least processed foods to put in your body wich creates healthy habits that leads us to a healthy lifestyle. 

Getting your hands dirty and being in touch with beautiful, living plants can promote positivity for the mind, body, and soul. However, that’s just scratching the surface of the many benefits of creating and maintaining a garden. Think about it, you’re bringing things to life by nourishing, watering and putting in the effort to get your plants flourishing. But how can gardening improve our health, too?

Most people enjoy being outdoors and digging into the soil, creating and watching plants grow. People with disabilities, people who are unwell, older people and children can find it especially rewarding to spend time in the garden tending plants and growing their own food.


  • Enjoyment – from the physical activity

  • Exercise – improves your endurance, strength, mobility and flexibility, and mental health

  • Relaxation – helps you relax and reduce stress levels

  • Fresh food – provides you and your family with a healthy variety of inexpensive fresh food.

This is the most obvious way how gardening can improve your health.

Whatever your age or level of ability is, you can enjoy gardening, have fun and develop new skills, including:

  • Responsibility – from caring for and tending plants
  • Understanding – learning about cause and effect (for example, plants die without water)
  • Self-confidence – from achieving goals and enjoying the food you have grown
  • Love of nature – from learning about the outdoor environment in a safe and pleasant place
  • Reasoning and discovery – learning about the science of plants, animals, weather, the environment, nutrition and simple construction
  • Physical activity – which is fun and good for your fitness
  • Cooperation – including shared activity and teamwork
  • Creativity – from finding new and exciting ways to grow food
  • Nutrition – learning about sources of fresh food and how to cook the food you grow in the garden.

Gardening is good for your mental health. Simply being in a garden can lift your spirits, particularly if you spend a lot of time indoors.


Being with others in a community garden can give you a sense of purpose and drive to achieve an end goal. It also provides a sense of belonging and acceptance for those who may otherwise feel isolated.


This kind of activity can help with depression in several ways, including:

  • Being outdoors in a pleasant environment
  • Working outdoors is reducing isolation
  • Caring for plants and investing in their future
  • Experiencing the joy and satisfaction of harvesting from the cropps that you've been taking care
This is an ideea of how a garden can be organized. It is up to you what types of vegetables or herbs you'll like to grow.

This is an ideea in order to help you to imagine how a personal garden can look and what you can grow.

Stay well naturally!💚

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