Garden

Growing your own food is an excellent way to decrease the single-use plastic packaging you bring into your home—not to mention the phenomenal health benefits of fresh, local and organic produce, combined with the deep satisfaction of working the soil with your own hands to feed yourself and your family. Given the complex mix of toxic chemicals in plastics that can leach into the soil and contaminate your lovingly nurtured fruits and veggies, it makes sense to use as little plastic as possible when you garden.

Plastic-free living experts Beth Terry and Lindsay Miles have wonderful posts on their blogs about their experiences with plastic-free gardening, and we highly suggest checking them out, especially if you are starting from scratch in creating your own garden and want to use as little plastic as possible: 

Beth Terry, My Plastic Free Life: Gardening Without Plastic, Parts 1-3: 

• Part 1 - Raised beds and Plastic-Free soil

• Part 2 - Planting and Replanting

• Part 3 - Mulching and watering

• Extra : Cool tips for Plastic-Free gardening

Lindsay Miles, Treading My Own Path: Zero Waste (+ Plastic Free) Gardening: 

• Lindsay Miles - Zero Waste Plastic-Free Gardening

 

Image credit: Lindsay Miles