Ten Reasons Why Gardening is Great News

If there's one activity that shouts good news, it's gardening, and this seems to have become a national pass time in Aotearoa.

Ten reasons why gardening is pure good news:

1. It connects us to the food we eat

2. It connects us to the land we build our homes on

3. It reminds us to be patient

4. Growing doesn't need to require much money

5. Something about it gives us permission to get dirty and scruffy - the land doesn't care how we look

6. We have control over what we do (or don't) put on our veggies as they grow

7. It reminds us how simple life can be - all we need are seeds, sun and water

8. The food we harvest tastes great

9. It bonds us with our ancestors

10. It's a way to get close to and understand the cycle of nature - something that we as humans are part of, though we sometime forget.

I've been following NZ Gardener's weekly newsletter (which you can sign up to for free, here). It's written by Lynda Hallinan in her mission to get New Zealanders gardening. We've covered her before in Happyzine, she's the amazing woman who vowed to live off ten dollars per week, plus all the produce of her land for a year. She liked it so much she kept going and has built up a following of nearly fourteen thousand Kiwis in the process. If this doesn't tell you that Aotearoa is getting back to the land, what does!? Wishing you a beautiful harvest.