No matter where you live, everyone can start a garden if you have the right materials and mind set. Not only is eating fresh grown fruits and vegetables better for your health, but it's also better for the environment. First off, it saves time and causes less pollution due to the fact that you don't have to drive to the store to buy groceries. Second off, it can enrich your soil with nitrates, which ultimately helps replenish the nitrogen in the atmosphere and helps it to become cleaner. Great crops to help do this are legumes, one being soy. While on the topic of soil, there are areas where you think it's not possible to grow gardens. To help nourish the soil, just add fertilizer! Now adding harsh, chemically formed fertilizer is not good for the environment due to the remnants ending up in the water systems due to runoff. A much cleaner and healthier way to add nutrients is through composting. This is another great key component that you can do to recycle the peels and shrubs that come from the results of gardening. To get the garden started, you may have to use the tr ash of store-bought goods to begin with, but these can be locally grown to again help limit the effects of transportation. As stated by the United States Composting Council in one of their articles, composting has many benefits. Examples being erosion prevention, weed control, and improvement in soil nutrients and structure. So go out and try gardening, it's good for you and the environment.
Source: http://compostingcouncil.org/wp/wp-cont … nefits.pdf

I agree with your post. Gardening has many benefits. In addition to the benefits you wrote, gardening reduces the greenhouse gases that are emitted when foods are transported from farms. Also, due to the fact that plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, gardening would help clean the air.