Herb gardening has many benefits grown in your own backyard. Herbs are really very much beneficial as first aid for your body and also for your surrounding. Gardening in your backyard is healing for the adults and kids which establish a connection with the nature. Specially, gardening with the children is more beneficial to enjoy the nature. Gardening and nature relives so much of stress. Gardening nourishes your spirit and allows connecting with your inner-self. Garden is the antidote for the noise pollution, busy schedule. Most important benefit to grow herbs is to save expenses in your foodstuffs. Fresh herbs are too much expensive in the market. You can use fresh herbs instantly when you grow you own herb garden. Herbs are very easy to grow and needs very little maintenance. Herbs can be grown in any place, container where ever you want. Herbs can be grown mixed with the ornamental plants. It adds attraction in your home garden. Herbs are the fabulous jazzes to make your dinner delicious. Fresh herbs are good source of nutrition with vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. The herbs...
The “Botanist’s Camp” is a lithograph illustrated by John Wolseley during 1997. As a botanist, John Wolseley takes inspiration from Australia’s unique outback, detailing the minutiae of the flora and fauna in his artworks. His unconventional yet innovative artistry style includes an abstract method whereby natural agents act as printmaking tools or as stimulus. With these principles, John painted many diverse sets of masterpieces and in this case the infamous “Botanist’s Camp”. Within the 74 cm by 93.5 cm canvas, John depicted an assortment of desert wildlife. These include a frog, frill-neck lizards, and various types of flora. Furthermore, as a contribution to the painter’s
Marigolds “Marigolds,” written by the author Eugenia W. Collier, begins with the main character, Elizabeth. The story is told in first person, being told by Elizabeth when she gets older. “Marigolds” takes place in Maryland during the Depression. The reader can tell it is the time of the Depression because in the story it says, “The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us, for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed.” Both the setting and time in this short story are important.
The theme of the book as it relates to the American Dream is those who take advantage by becoming covetous and acquisitive. The Clutters in this book are described as the ideal American Dream family. Herb Clutter is the head man of the house who makes sure that his family and financial situations are in order. Herb started off with a struggle but eventually worked hard to become the man he became. Even though they were viewed as a rich family toward the community they did have underlying issues that weren’t visible to the outside world. Dick and Perry on the other hand are those who were unable to achieve the American Dream so they were willing to do anything to become successful the easy way even if that means stealing from others. They
The end of child innocence is a significant part of transitioning into young adulthood. This is illustrated in “Marigolds,” a short story written by Eugenia Collier, that takes place in a small town trapped in poverty during the Great Depression. The main character Lizabeth is a fourteen-year-old girl who is playing with her brother and neighborhood friends and just being kids when she simultaneously encounters an experience that teach about compassion, which eventually helps her step into adulthood. Through Lizabeth’s childhood experience, Collier portrays that maturity is based on compassion and overcoming the innocence of childhood.
This process is the same as to how pharmaceuticals work within the body. Because herbs naturally occur, they are thought to have significantly fewer side effects over western medicine.
Medicinal marijuana has been shown to have many positive effects that outweigh the side effects of this drug. The benefits of this drug are from a financial point of view, as well as medically and legally. Medically, marijuana is useful for patients suffering from stress levels, high blood pressure, neurodegenerative diseases, and even cancer. Financially, medicinal marijuana helps create more revenue, create new jobs, and boost the economy. Legally, cannabis stops petty spending on minor marijuana crimes, saving the DEA large amounts of money.
“Al Condraj sat on the bench he had made and smelled the parsley garden and didn’t feel humiliated anymore. But nothing could stop him from hating the two men, even though he knew they hadn’t done anything they shouldn’t have done.” (The Parsley Garden, Junior Great Books, Series 6, pg.42)
An herb is a plant or plant part used for its scent, flavour, or therapeutic properties which are sold as tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts, and fresh or dried plants. People use herbal medicines to maintain or improve their health. Herbalism or the use of plants for medicinal purposes has existed for centuries and their knowledge has been relayed from one generation to another. Written evidence of herbal remedies dates back over 5,000 years, to the Sumerians, who created lists of plants. A number of ancient cultures wrote on plants and their medical uses. Herbs are mentioned in Egyptian medical papyri and depicted in tomb illustrations (Nunn and John, 2002). In India, the oldest known ayurvedic texts, Susrutha Samhita and Charaka Samhitha speak of herbal preparations for treating diseases. One such plant which has long been used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for diseases including parkinsonism is Mucuna pruriens. Mucuna is rich in L-Dopa (L-3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) or levodopa which is the precursor of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is deficient in Parkinson’s...
“There is nothing in this world more valuable than one's dignity,” a teaching that is perfectly depicted in the odd tale of Al Condraj. In this story, the protagonist, Al, is plunged into a world made up of values that revolve around the perceived superiority of owning materialistic things compared to the importance of one’s own dignity. As a result, he steals a hammer from a store keeper and when he is caught, immediately loses all the dignity he owned. It is upsetting, and Al spends the rest of the story aligning his perception of the world as a place where if someone needs something, it being there is the right way of things-also represented by the garden-with the real world where if you want something, you have to pay for it, and pay something
In Michael Pollan's chapter of Botany of Desire, he talks about genetic modification; injecting genome into the DNA of other crops with the sole purpose to change their characteristics. Pollan genetically modifies a potato and is named the “NewLeaf”. Pollan’s research question is about creating a New Leaf Potato by injecting a bacterium called Baclilus Thuringiensis (bt) in the potatoes DNA. By doing this, it allows the potato to defend itself from their biggest threat, which is the Colorado beetle. Throughout this chapter, Pollan shows the reader that he has an opinion on genetically modified crops and how it can not only affect us today, but also in the future. He gives us some historic background regarding the New Leaf potato with the intention to get across his concern of monoculturalism. Pollan realizes that his potato is considered a pesticide when he comments: “the small print on the label also brought the disconcerting news that my potato plants were themselves registered as a pesticide with the environmental Protection Administration” (190). Throughout the chapter, he also brings in farmers from different areas and methods of plantation to give an opinion on the genetic modification and the future of these crops.
...ctive way of farming than traditional soil gardening. There are many physical and environmental benefits to growing with Aquaponics. Those benefits include, allowing one to produce the biggest, best, and most diverse fruits and vegetables, allowing them to do that with the least amount of water and energy, eliminate the need to apply pesticides to one’s crops, and eliminate the need to use any fertilizers whatsoever. All in all, Aquaponics is basically the most efficient way to grow your own fruits and vegetables, while using minimal effort and resources.
Another benefit of gardening is reducing the amount of energy required to heat and cool a home.
As a child I remember my mother was always busy at work in her garden. It was full of lush red cherry and big boy tomatoes so, juicy and sweet that I could pick them right off the bush and eat it. I would eat so many of these lovely succulent round balls of red that my mouth would start to feel the pain from the acid in the tomatoes. She grew everything from a variety of vegetables so tasty to flowers so beautiful they would take my breath away. I could not wait for springs arrival, just to help her cultivate our summer gardens.
Humans depend on plants in numerous ways. One reason we depend on plants is for consumption. Plants have the unique ability of producing their own food through a process called photosynthesis. In this process, plants are able to produce macromolecules such as carbohydrates that cannot be produced in animals or humans. In humans, the only to gain these macromolecules is to consume plant matter, or consume plant-eating animals (herbivores).
Herbal products are medicinal agents obtained from the plants. It’s all started 100 years ago by ancient people. Since synthetic medicine are not yet invented by that time, ancient people had invented medicine out of the plants. Through generations the original herbal medicine had been modified due to the new knowledge discovered and technologies invented.