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DR. EARTH® GARDENING GUIDE DR. EARTH® GARDENING GUIDE
The only way you can have ultimate control over the quality of
the food you consume is to acquire it from an organic farm, a
farmers market, or grow it yourself in soil you know to be untainted
and healthy. Yes, “healthy.” Soil is alive! It has vitality, a word
defined as “of, or manifesting life.” Every cubic inch of healthy soil
is a miniature world of beneficial living organisms carrying out
nature’s amazing processes to break down organic matter, making
it available to plants’ roots. Those roots take up these life-giving
elements to nourish the plant that nourishes you. Soil innovation is
what Dr. Earth® is all about. Our patented ingredients, like PreBiotic®
and TruBiotic®, all came about as a result of our company’s
thorough understanding of the nature of healthy soil and how to
nurture and preserve its life-giving properties.
Everything in every cell of your body was once a biological or elemental
part of your environment, originating in the soil, air, and water. You came
from the earth. Like all living things, your life is supported by the earth, and
one day your physical body will return to the earth. While you are alive,
the food you eat is inextricably linked to soil particles that existed millions
of years ago, part of a food chain that was here before mankind even
appeared on the scene.
We must eat to live, but for some, eating amounts to nothing more than an
arbitrary act, simply a way to ll their stomachs and avoid the sensation of
hunger. The best way to live, however, is to eat consciously, with awareness,
and with the intention that everything you allow into your body must be
healthy and pure. That isn’t always easy. The food available in most grocery
stores and restaurants might not be as healthy as you think it is.
Making your own wise choices about the source of your food
The simple connection!
HEALTHY LIVING
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
The national diet has been declining in nutrition for decades. Our food is produced in
soils of dwindling fertility and processed to the last degree, laced with food additives
and a residue of crop pesticides, growth hormones, and antibiotics. If ”we are what
we eat,” our soaring incidence of degenerative disease should come as no surprise.
Commercial agriculture supplies our grocery stores with all
the produce we can imagine, certified organic or not. Some
is grown locally, some on the other side of the nation or even
the other side of the world. Although certification programs
exist for organic farmers, your home garden has no policies
or rules. We have no manual to follow. Instead, we must have
some common sense. If you use your neighbor’s leaf litter as
compost and are positive they don’t apply any chemicals to
their soil or plants, you don’t need to worry about the quality
of the leaf litter. Certification is more important to commercial
growers who must prove they are growing by accepted public
standards or a set of rules in order to truthfully label their
produce organic. For the home gardener, certified is a useless
term, but you can make the choice to set your own high
standards and use products and practices that will give you
peace of mind and the assurance that your food is wholesome.
If you are not 100% certain that the soil in the location where
you have, or plan to have a garden is completely safe, don’t
take chances. Consider a new site or create a garden of raised
beds and add good soil. Dr. Earth® bagged soils will give you
complete peace of mind and allow you to grow the delicious,
nutritious produce you will never find in a store.
The rest buy from local farmers markets or a good local
produce market that stocks organic produce, where
organic certification actually matters. At home, trust your
own good judgment and the excellent products made
by Dr. Earth®, made with the intelligence of nature. Look
deeply into your particular situation to understand
how and why the practices you choose meet your
needs while protecting yourself and your soil. In any
agricultural endeavor, whether a small home garden or
a massive corporate farm, we humans need to focus our
energy on nurturing the soil which serves as the basis
for healthy sustainable growth of our bodies, economies,
nations, and planet. By practicing organic gardening on
a personal level and supporting others who do, we can
hope to someday change practices on a global level
and make a real dent in the universe. Healthy soil is the
cornerstone of the prosperity of nations.
Applying the concept of “organic” to your home garden
Grow as much of your own food as you can
Healthy
Garden
Healthy
You
IF YOU HAVE
YOUR HEALTH
YOU HAVE WEALTH