A Salad Garden Is The Way To Reach Health Goals!

You can achieve your health and wellness goals while enjoying being out in nature because there are so many benefits of gardening! Gardening is a great way to get some exercise and enjoy the outdoors. It can also be a great way to improve your mental health.

Gardening is not just for your grandparents or your older aunt or people who have an extra chunk of land in their backyard. You can create a small salad garden on your balcony or patio or find a community garden that will allow you to grow vegetables and flowers together with other people.

Reasons Why a Salad Garden May Make A Huge Impact on Your Health This Year And A Few Benefits Of Gardening

It’s the easiest way to eat healthier and create a lifestyle you love

Growing food in your salad garden can help you yield the freshest and healthiest foods available. Not only do dark leafy greens, radishes, tomatoes, and other things most often found in salads add the nutrients we need to our diet they can also have a significant impact on our mental health. In several studies about the connection between a healthy diet and developing depressive symptoms, researchers found that:

Better diet quality at midlife seems to be strongly linked to greater health and well-being in persons surviving to older ages (click to go to article)

 

A Meditteranean diet (which focuses on eating fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy oils, whole grains, and nuts), is one example of how to enjoy better diet quality. 

You can have a fresh chopped salad in minutes when you harvest from your salad garden. You don’t need to wait until the full head of lettuce has matured you just need to cut the outside leaves. Add to your salad by picking a few springs of herbs like parsley or cilantro, adding a radish or whatever else you’ve decided to grow in your garden. The little grape tomatoes that I grew in my garden last summer were the best-tasting tomatoes I’ve ever had! And I knew that I grew them organically and they didn’t need to be packaged up and shipped anywhere.

 

Being in nature makes us feel more grounded, less stressed, and eases anxiety

Enjoy seeing the butterflies, ladybugs, and bees that are attracted to the companion plants you add to your salad garden space. Stopping for a moment to notice these creatures allows you to be more mindful, present, and feel calmer.

 

A salad garden will help you get outside, connect with nature, and enjoy your outdoor space

I walk by so many apartments and condos that have coveted balconies and patios and see that most of them make very little use of their outdoor spaces. A thriving, green, joyful-looking garden can really liven up those spaces and give people reasons to get outside every single day in a very convenient way.

 

There are many benefits of gardening: they encourage more positive mental health, improve communities, and help the environment

There are many benefits of gardening that you may be overlooking. Gardening has been shown to reduce stress, improve moods, increase physical activity, and increase social connectivity. If you are looking for ways to improve your mental health this year, try starting with gardening!

The physical benefits of gardening are also great. Gardening has been shown to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, improve circulation, reduce the risk of heart disease, and help with metabolism.