Showing posts with label healthy gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy gardens. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2012

What is valuable About Composting?


What is valuable About Composting?

By Clifford Woods

Over the course of human history and pretty much as far back as civilization stretches, composting has been used a means by which to grow food and enrich gardens. Sadly however, ever since mass-scale farming took over several decades ago, the practice has declined all over the world and there is less emphasis put on the importance of composting than ever before. 

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This is something that simply has to change for the future, and thankfully looks like it’s once again heading in the right way. 


A Rebirth for Composting: Nowadays, people are becoming more and more aware not only of what they are using around the home and the garden, but also what they are putting into their bodies and the effects their actions have on the environment. As such, the idea of composting value has once again become a much discussed point and people are once again realizing just how positive and beneficial this truly ancient practice can be. 

Even the most simple of endeavors like natural composting at home with the use of a single container for food scraps and organic waste is having a massively beneficial effect on the planet, helping to the reduce the need for landfills and other kinds of waste disposal. With the slightest effort, composting can lead to significant cash savings, benefits to health, positives for the garden and a beneficial boost to the environment all at the same time. 

Getting Into the Habit: In order to be effective, those looking to compost at home need to “get into the habit” to a point where recycling their organic waste becomes natural, and not something they actually have to think about. 

To work properly, effective composting at home needs to be part of a "lifestyle" and is an on-going process. Once these habits have been instilled however the benefits are too numerous to count, though include the following among others:

Benefits of Composting:


  • Production of an excellent product to boost the growth of organic fruits, vegetable and herbs at home – guaranteed to be 100% free of chemicals and harmful additives. 
  • A free form of fertilizer that costs nothing – the waste will already be present as a part of everyday life, so why not put it to use?
  • An excellent alternative to use with 100% safety in environments where children or pets may be present. 
  • A simple way of getting rid of refuses and waste from the garden, which may not be allowed in standard collections.
  • A means by which to reduce overall wastage and thus conserve landfill space.


Going about natural composting around the home essentially represents nothing more than common sense. After all, to overlook composting value and continue to throw out perfectly good organic matter only to go and pay good money for compost at the store is money needlessly down the drain. 

Effective composting can be child’s play and there’s no reason not to get the kids involved from an early age and begin instilling good habits for life. That being said, it’s never too late to get started and begin making a difference.


Summary: This article serves as a brief guide as to why any responsible person should consider composting at home for the sake of both the household and the environment at large.

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Clifford Woods is the CEO of Organic Environmental Technology.
You can find out more about organic composting at www.effens.com

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Natural and Organic Gardens

Natural and Organic Gardens

By Clifford Woods

The use of purely organic products and materials is something that seems to have gone in and out of fashion over the course of time, though is once again heading for a peak. There was a time when organic gardens were in fact the only kinds of garden in the world, as mankind hadn't yet come up with the endless array of chemicals and synthetic compounds we know today.

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Once these chemicals made an appearance however, this apparent means by which to use a fast and easy quick-fix solution saw fully natural gardens decline and pesticide/herbicide use sky-rocket.

An Awakening: Now however we know that overuse, or indeed any use of these chemical products can be hugely detrimental to health and to the environment as a whole, which has seen interest once again spike not just in gardens, but in healthy gardens of a 100% organic nature.

That being said, there are still thousands of households across every town and village that are yet to realize that this modern way of learning from the past, thereby making it necessary to occasionally remind ourselves as to what makes the organic garden a vastly superior choice.

Health:

Right off the bat, feeding and treating plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables with 100% natural and organic products is to treat them exactly as Mother Nature intended. Given the obvious fact that no human being knows as much about nature as nature itself, common sense would dictate that organic gardens tended to in such a way will display the kind of health and prowess their chemical-treated counterpart gardens simply cannot come close to.

Taste:  An extension of the above, it is also no secret why organic products sourced from natural gardens are always significantly more expensive than standard variants in the supermarkets – they are superior in every way. From size to taste to texture to vitamin content and so on, natural and organically grown fruits and vegetables are beyond compare.
Costs:  Any household can begin making its own organic compost of the finest quality with the waste matter is generates every day, so why on Earth would it make sense to visit a store and shell out good money for something inferior? The idea is preposterous and makes no sense whatsoever yet that is exactly what the majority across the US and beyond are still doing even to this day.
Safety:  Another considerable benefit of natural gardens is the way in which they are also naturally healthy gardens for human beings and animals alike. As such, if intending to have kids and pets playing or spending time in the gardens at any time, it really isn't worth taking chances on their health and safety by using harmful chemicals.

Environment:

Rounding off, everything that gets liberally sprayed or sprinkled on any part of the garden will eventually be reclaimed and find its way back into the Earth, so take second to think how much damage those millions of liters of chemicals are doing to the planet every year.
If this doesn't tell you immediately why you should be favoring organic gardens alone, it really should.

Summary: This article discusses a number of reasons and factors as to why an organic garden is ultimately a superior choice for the household, family and environment alike, when held in comparison to those using chemicals and synthetic products.

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Clifford Woods is the CEO of Organic Environmental Technology.
You can find out more about Organic Products for gardens at www.effens.com

We brew Beneficial Microorganisms that eat toxins
in the environment and sell environmentally friendly products