Why should we grow our own food, or tend to build a flower garden, or maintain a green space?

Philosophizing our garden - I loved this week's (Week 14) Hive Garden Question - anyone who is related to a garden in any form can answer. Is the garden important for ourselves, or the community we live, or the earth itself? Do we gain spiritually, economically, environmentally? Or you are doing gardening just to occupy idle hands?

So this was our last yield of this summer, and I brought and kept them to take a photo and Dad picked it our of curiosity. This is what a garden can do - it even strikes to a person, whose brain does not work because of dementia. That's kind of a spiritual healing, that wakes up his brain, because he was very much active and engaged with gardening activities when he was fit.

This particular breed of mango plant (along with the apple berry) was brought by him from Sambalpur, where he was doing his job, which is located at a distance of more than 300 kms from our home. That too while traveling by bus - which was the only way of communication back then. Back then I was his helper lifting the hard part, the result of which is yielded now and will extend to next generation. This variety is so sweet that, whomever we gave this mango, want to grow a plant of it. Let me tell you a real fun this year - the lady included this mango in breakfast given to my daughter's teacher and after eating this mango, he probably went and told his wife. Next time, he came with a request - his wife wants few seeds and we gave them a lot of mangoes - eat and grow yourself. As it was abundant this year, we distributed more than half, contributing to the community where we live.

And then this particular mango on our backward ripens towards the end of this season but it was not an easy pick. Same goes with the jack fruits, that were on the top of the plant.

But I have an amazing guy in our football team who climbs trees like a monkey - he was able to get them quickly.

This time I insisted him to take some to his home - community in villages are very powerful - they will always come forward when you are in need and these organic shares strengthens these bonding.

Economically, this year, we have not bought mangoes from market yet, saving a lot. In total, I would think, we have saved more than 50K considering what we yielded. And the most important factor - the ones that sells in market are certainly not organic - having your own garden produce your food will be vital in saving from life threatening diseases like Cancer - the future is going there. I have a plan to have a garden that would produce all my vegetable needs, fully organic. If you have tasted organic vegetables, then you can certainly differentiate the taste from chemically grown vegetables.

So for me a garden means a lot than just to occupy idle hands - it not only spiritually heals by giving that fulfilling sense, but contributes to us and the community through lot of means. The environment around our house in the native stays cooler and feels like a holiday home - they don't even need to use AC and that is the reason they don't want to come and stay with us in the city. And I can very much feel that as I go there often - a green space around us is no less than luxury in present times.

What's your garden philosophy?

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