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As we grow older, the inevitability of age catches up with us, and our bodies simply can’t do what they once did. Forget about running a marathon—though some beat the odds and do it—and forget about bench pressing 300 pounds. At some point, it becomes notably challenging to bend over and stand back up, let alone lift a 25-pound item from the ground. Growing a garden, for example, just isn’t as relaxing as it used to be.
When things get to this point, we have to start thinking smarter instead of working harder, and there are lots of ways we can make gardening easier physically if we just plant sensibly. In fact, elderly or not, a lot of these basic garden design ideas could benefit us. We could potentially be saving time, energy, and resources by relying on clever strategies as opposed to hard work and brute strength.
With that in mind, perhaps it’s time to put away the old gas-guzzling tiller, roll up the hose, and make the garden an efficient, easy place to manage, no matter at what age we are attempting it.
In permaculture—a design science for living sustainably—there are many simple methods for making the spaces we live in more efficient, both in terms of how much work we do and how much energy and natural resources we require. These make even more sense as we get older.
Source: I AM ORGANIC GARDENING/Youtube
When gardening in general, the act of bending down to grab a zucchini or pull a weed may become too taxing. It might be time to change what the garden looks like entirely. Instead of stumping over to get the ground, we can think of ways to bring the ground, or at least the food we are growing, up to us.
For many, garden maintenance is possibly the most labor-intensive part of the process, more so because it requires regular attention than anything. Watering, of course, is what many gardeners most worry about, likely followed closely by pulling weeds. Well, why not more or less keep this stuff off the to-do list?
For some of us, we love getting down in the dirt, making gardening a physical experience, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. Using careful planning rather than physical prowess can make gardening a viable option for just about everyone. And, when that happens, we might be able to feed the world a bit more reasonably.
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