There is nothing more basic than to coax the earth into providing food for yourself. Yes, that’s right. Growing your own food can be an immensely gratifying experience. Working with the rhythm of nature is peaceful and liberating. You can grow your own organic products just to prove that you can do it. You can also go organic by growing your own food to save money. Or you can choose it as a way of life!

Growing your own food and going organic in the process is a skill set that is immensely helpful. Do it yourself for your own sustenance, or teach someone else to do it. Both acts are powerful in bringing about a change in the normal sphere of the world. In fact, growing your very own organic foods is not as difficult as it may seem. If you have access to a roof, a deck, or even a patch of earth the size of a flower bed – you are ready to start. You can feed yourself or others. Any person can start their own organic garden to grow their own food, with the patience and time to just do it.

All of the knowledge possessed by the best of farmers of a century ago can now be accessed with an internet connection. We all know that the internet has made a lot of knowledge available to the common person for free. With the huge amount of resources available to you, you can now start your very own garden and grow your own organic foods. Read on to find out how you can get started on a basic, organic way of life.

•   If you have a garden, stop the application of all pesticides, weed killers, sprays, and fungicides immediately. This should be done without any exceptions.

•    It is a good idea to start your own food production scheme in a small way. Twenty-five square feet is a good start. Choose an area where sun is available almost year-round. If some of this area gets shaded from the sun for part of the year, that is fine as well. Choose an area away from fences or buildings since the proximity to other properties could result in contamination of the soil with chemicals, heavy metals, or paint.

•     If there is debris on the soil in this area, remove it. If plants are growing and you want them transferred somewhere else, use a shovel to dig them out and put them in a new location.

•    Next, use organic materials like fine plant material, dried grass, or leaves to cover the area from non-pesticide gardens.

•    Use crumbly black soil that is available from under forest trees and spread it thinly all over the garden area. Better yet, use compost from another person’s garden. This way, you will be putting worms, bugs, and other soil-beneficial life forms into your garden.

•    Now, with a shovel or pick, start mixing the upper three inches of the organic material and soil together. Note that burying the organic material deeper than that may destroy your garden, since the soil and plants won’t get enough oxygen to thrive.

•   Try keeping the soil damp so that the organic material can grow. But don’t let it get soggy.

•  Do not ever walk on the garden soil you have created.

•    Now that the soil is ready, you can start planting your own roots, herbs, vegetables, and fruits.

•     It is a good idea to start a compost heap in the garden. Take all the organic materials you can find and dump them together. Coffee and tea grounds, tea bags, fruit peels, and fruit cores are good for composting. Throw handfuls of dirt on top, and then mix the whole thing with your shovel. Keep the heap damp, but not soggy, so that the organic life can flourish. Apply this to the soil once in a while, and your organic garden will flourish.

Growing your own food could also come in handy if there’s a natural disaster like an earthquake.  Then you’ll have your own food source at home.  It may sound far fetched but it could happen.