Ayla Mager

News editor

Posted Oct. 19 2026

When you need to eat, you eat what you find at the store, processed foods. Are you consuming what’s best for you? The best way to avoid any unnecessary pollutants is to grow your own food. You’ll get to enjoy life as it should be. 

When you grow your own food, including fruits, veggies and grains, you are able to control what you put into your body. When buying, you don’t know for sure what’s been done to your food. Companies use pesticides and herbicides on their crops. Then, they package their products in plastic. These processes are unnatural and unnecessary. 

Having a garden saves money too. Why pay for organic materials? If you can do something yourself, do it. #DIY. Find a connection with yourself and gardening, make it something you want, something that makes you feel fulfilled. Honestly, things always taste better when you know you did it yourself. You’ll be able to taste the pride in your food. 

Saving your body and your money isn’t my focus, though. What’s really important is the earth and the air. Get some dirt under your nails. Gardening connects you to nature, something everyone needs. Life is stressful, especially when most jobs are indoors for 40 hours a week. Being able to come home to something real and natural is grounding. A lot of people don’t have time for hobbies, but by making a need for gardening you cheat the system. Enjoy growing your food, making your own sustenance. 

Build community with other gardeners. Ask how their garden is doing, what you should do differently. Trade and share your crops. Find some human connection. Just like the roots of a plant, intertwining beneath the soil, come together with your community to grow a garden. 

A little green thumb never hurt anyone.