It is hard for me to understand how anyone can live in an apartment surrounded by bricks and concrete. My life has been one where a garden is an essential part of it. Seeing plants grow and thrive is a great pleasure and more important is the food produced with little effort and few chemicals. This is a rare thing these days as gardens are fast becoming a thing of the past but they don’t have to be.

What do people have against a bit of work outside in the fresh air? The main objection is time and energy. Many would rather work-out at the gym for which they pay and then buy their produce in supermarkets on the way home. This is not how the human body was meant to adapt.

No matter whether one owns their home or rents if there is some dirt somewhere around it or