For me, getting back to basics includes having a vegetable garden. For over twenty years I have had a small backyard garden in south central Pennsylvania. I enjoy getting my hands dirty and growing things I can consume. It also makes me feel a little closer to my Dad who used to garden when I was growing up. Our gardens differ in the fact that I have raised beds and he didn’t. He also had fruit trees (pears, apples, peaches) and I have fruit bushes (raspberries and blueberries.) I wish I would’ve paid closer attention to what he tried to teach me back then, but I did glean the following seven reasons to plant a garden from him.
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