Earth Exercise

Yesterday, early in the morning I completed a resistance workout using a Tony Horton DVD. Later in the afternoon, I exercised and burned calories the old fashioned way, by working the earth. Health and wellness continue to evolve for me. Each year it becomes clearer than in the one before that I can make better choices related to food, what I eat and how it gets prepared. To that end, this year we are planting a kitchen garden. We have previously grown cooking herbs and tomatoes. This year we hope to increase the harvest.

Make no mistake, it’s all part of the plan to live in harmony with the earth. We’ll add composting to our “green” household habits as well. Along with the nutritional benefits, I look forward to lowering our carbon footprint by reducing the amount of fruits and vegetables we purchase that had to be shipped in to our local market from outside the state, or even the country.

We’ve read and planned through the winter. Time to make progress arrived, so I set out to break ground for the garden. We have a small roto-tiller. It failed to do the job, so I decided to do it the way farmers have for time immemorial, which is manually. I took out a rake, shovel and pickax and worked the earth for just shy of two hours. I have a nice garden bed laid out, a sore neck, back and shoulder, a couple of annoying calluses and a blister to show for it all.

No pain, no grain???? :-)

Tom