It’s never too early to start thinking about a home or corporate garden at the workplace. Growing a garden can reduce carbon emissions from transportation and other farming inputs that the home or corporate gardener can control.
TIP: Before moving on to the five gardening tips, consumers ( and business owners) can also obtain more environmentally friendly-friendly products for consumption or resale to diners by considering the supply chains of where you shop. Make sure to invest the time into researching where restaurants obtain their food stocks or what they say on their websites. In a later series, Greenspeake will cover how to shop restaurants, and other vendors, on an empirical basis for fair wages and environmentally friendly products, just as a couple of examples. There are many attributes to consider for suppliers and vendors on when thinking sustainably.
Start a compost pile:
One of the biggest things to consider in gardening is soil health. Composting things like food waste (from your office or home) can reduce your carbon footprint and help create healthier soil for your future vegetables. The compost also helps with plant health and growing successfully.
Draw a plan:
Make sure you look at what to plant and when the best time to plant is for your local region. It’s like anything, especially in business, if there is no plan, there can be no measure of success.
Favoritism:
Picking your favorites, things you like to eat, will help with being invested in a corporate or home garden. For the office garden, you may not have gotten everything you wanted, but there’s still a sense of teamwork that can help carry your plants over the finish line and onto the Lunch plate.
Soil health:
The soil is the garden are words to live by for the venture of growing food successfully. Without good soil, there is no food. This is where your compost pile, which should be the first thing on the list prior to considering what is to go into a garden, becomes a vital asset. This can be food waste: coffee grounds, for example, and other solid food waste.
Get social:
It’s best to get on a social path when getting started gardening, especially with local gardeners that have been doing it for a while. These individuals can help you get started with growing locally and encourage you to try different things after a crop failure, which can occur for new farmers.
These are just a few tips to start writing down now, though the season for many won’t really get going until the first quarter of next year. Check back for more in-depth coverage of the technical aspects of gardening at the office and at home, or both.