Enhance healthy options

Eating healthy is a nutritious option, and it can be fun one as well.   Although consumers, when asked, chose healthy eating, their buying habits are not always in line with their responses.  As issues such as diabetis, heart attacks, cancer and obesity increase, nutrition plays a vital role in the goal for healthier, fitter lifestyle.

Economics will play an important role for healthier choices, from all sides.  Basics of a healthy diet gives a pictorial to help us grapple with ‘required’ servings.  Look at your lifestyle and try to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in your eating today.

Growing food in a community garden

According to Wikipaedia: A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively a  group of people.  There are many ways to operate a community garden, usually decided by the operating group or by the members of the garden.

Windfields Community and Teaching Gardens, is home to 27 allotments and 30 demonstration plots that grow  peas, corn, tomatoes, radishes, beans, zucchinnis, cucumbers, beets, lettuce, okra, onions, carrots, leeks, peppers and pumpkins.

Research has shown that grown locally is more nutritious than food that travels for days.

Growing food in a community garden is a great way to try and learn about different types of vegetables, their cultural practices, care and how to eat them.  Try joining and supporting your local community garden, grow your own food, and reduce your carbon footprint.

Youth volunteers help to weed and water the garden while having fun.