Nutrition

Nutritional benefits of Home Grown Food:

  1. Your Home Harvest Farms planter is a lifetime investment in health, providing you with a consistent supply of tasty, freshly harvested food.
  2. Freshly harvested raw vegetables are higher in active food enzymes. Enzymes give our body chemistry its vitality and provide powerful anti-inflammatory and immune boosting benefits.
  3. When you grow from organic seed you will avoid potentially dangerous genetically altered foods (GMO’s – Genetically Modified Organisms).
  4. Fresh food is known to have higher nutrient content as vitamins and minerals begin to decrease from the moment food is harvested.
  5. Vitamin K, found in dark leafy greens with highest concentrations in fresh food, is an important nutrient that ensures calcium uptake into the bone.
  6. Eat more kale and dark leafy greens year round – they are one of the highest sources of absorbable calcium.
  7. Get more Vitamin C (way more!). Up to 80%  of vitamin C in fresh greens is lost in the first 24 hours after harvest.
  8. Calcium in dark green foods is over 50% absorbable.
  9. Avoid the extra coating of chemicals sprayed on foods that travel long distances. These chemicals help to avoid spoilage along the way but have health damaging effects.
  10. Choose to grow heritage and heirloom seed varieties known to be richer in flavor and nutrients, much different from the modern varieties bred for durability, pesticide resistance and uniformity.
  11. Fresh herbs are not just nutrient dense, they also provide a variety of therapeutic benefits.
  12. An increased variety of food will yield an assortment of vitamins and minerals.
  13. Organic produce is proven to have higher antioxidant and cancer fighting properties. Specifically Resveratrol, the well known antioxidant found in red wine.
  14. Lettuce greens, herbs and kale from your Home Harvest Farms planter can be harvested repeatedly before needing to be replanted providing many delicious meals.
  15. A freshly harvested crop will last much longer than most store bought food that has been sitting on the shelf and traveled a distance and it has not been sprayed with chemicals to preserve it.
  16. Local food is social. Watch it be the topic of conversation the next time you have company and harvest your greens and edible flowers minutes before serving that fresh salad. It’s fun to serve food grown at home and rather impressive as well!