Good mood food | The Top Mood-Boosting Foods in the Garden. Grow a Good Mood Garden Just being outside, whether you’re gardening, exercising, or simply taking a stroll, is a great mood booster. But getting your hands dirty in a garden is so effective at combating depression that it’s often used in “horticultural therapy” at psychiatric hospitals. If you feel like your energy levels are dropping or you’re just too stressed out at work, plant yourself a good-mood garden, and get the benefits not just of a little garden therapy but of all the healthy foods linked to lower rates of depression. Certain vegetables and herbs are rich in antidepressant compounds and minerals that can do everything from taking the edge off a bad day to curing full-blown depression.
Here’s a guide to get you started—10 of the most potent antidepressant foods and herbs and how to grow them anywhere. Like this? « Prev Slide 1/11 Next » Swiss Chard Grow it: Chard is a hardy crop that, if planted even as late as summer, will produce until early winter. . « Prev Slide 2/11 Next » Backyard Vegetable Garden. While it may seem like a lot of work to get the beds established for planting, this can be done in stages. You can start with a small plot and enlarge the garden as time and inspiration allow. Remember, the bulk of the work, establishing the beds, only has to be done once.
Once in place, nutrients can be added by 'top dressing', and will not require heavy digging or strenuous work. The best advice we can give is to put your attention to building rich, organic soil. It is amazing how plants which are bedded in rich soil will grow vigorously and have a natural resistance to insect pests and plant diseases. And as plants grow rapidly and their vegetative growth expands, soil-borne weeds become blocked out and less of a nuisance. Learning the basics of soil development is not difficult, it just requires some attention early in the season, before planting any crops, and during the season in between successive crop plantings.
Localization. Permaculture Now! - Favorite Videos. Favorite Permaculture Videos Geoff Lawton Greening the Desert Geoff Lawton turns dry desert near the Dead Sea into a food producing green landscape using water harvesting. Permaculture Water Harvesting Geoff Lawton founding Director of the Permaculture Research Institute talks about Permaculture Water Harvesting techniques, swales and sillways. David Holmgren on the Endurance of Suburbia David Holmgren speaks of his vision of a radically retrofitted, food producing suburbia.
Homegrown Revolution Radical Change Taking Root A family living in Pasadena, CA shows how it is possible to grow your food in the middle of the city. Permaculture in Austria Austria's Sepp Holzer transformed a fir farm into a commercially viable, ecologically sound farm. Home : Contact : Green Hosted by Acorn Host : Website Support by Alluminé. Permaculture Principles. When ‘Local’ Makes It Big. Companion Planting. Garden as if your life depended on it, because it does. Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier of states where snow still has a ban on it — and the grass has ‘riz. And so has the price of most foods, which is particularly devastating just now when so many Americans are unemployed, underemployed, retired or retiring, on declining or fixed incomes and are having to choose between paying their mortgages, credit card bills, car payments, and medical and utility bills and eating enough and healthily.
Many are eating more fast food, prepared foods, junk food — all of which are also becoming more expensive — or less food. In some American towns, and not just impoverished backwaters, as many as 30 percent of residents can’t afford to feed themselves and their families sufficiently, let alone nutritiously. Here in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina where I live it’s 25 percent. Across the country one out of six of the elderly suffers from malnutrition and hunger. What’s for Supper Down the Road? Why Is Gardening So Important Now?