How to Grow Healthy Food:

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How to G Heay Food

To g heay food, you literally have to start at rock bottom. No matter w you're ging, from chickpeas to chickens, the truth is t you are w they eat!

It's no secret t all life begins with the l. Aough it may look like dirt to the naked eye, ly rich l is a living, breathing community of microsms. These little izens of the dirt are born, g, breed, give birth and die leaving an estate of nutrition-filled remains to the l. While they live, many of these little critters feed on undesirable elements like harmful bacteria.

Every year, ers spend thousands of dollars on ml fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides t are little more than a quick fix to ing problems and create long-term hea hazs for everyone, from humans to single-celled sms in the l. If you really want to g heay food, the first step is to keep your underground colony in good hea.

There are two things you need to do to maintain heay l. The first is to keep out the mls. The second is to add rich c matter to your l at regular intervals.
Keep out the mls

No matter w amount of ml you use in your ing, a drop is a deluge to a microsm. More to the point, most mls don't fade away. They leech into your and wait to attach to some ging thing� like your plants. One example is a er who claims to g c apples. He doesn't spray his trees, but he does use a ml "weed & feed" appltion on his lawn, sengly unaware of the systc consequences of using mls.

Feed your l

The best way to enrich your l is to give it regular appltions of composted c matter. Compost can be anything from y mulch to kitn vegetable waste. If you don't have the time to maintain a compost bin, an easy way to add c matter to your y is through mowing your lawn with a mulching mower. Prepared compost is also available for purchase from nurseries and home centers.

Remember the house t Jack built? It's similar in your . The roots take from the l to give to the stems t bear the buds t turn into the fruit�. Whether or not the fruit is heay depends on w was in the l.