김포공항 발렛주차는 편도대여가 가능한가요?
편도대여가 가능한가요 가족용 차량을 직접 운전하는 경우나 여행 시 특수 장비를 갖춘 장애인 차량이 필요한 경우 김포공항의 발레파킹 서비스를 이용하면 터미널까지 편리하게 이동할 수 있습니다. 아래 글에서는 비용, 김포공항 발레파킹 주차장 위치, 예약 전 알아두어야 할 사항에 대해 필요한 모...
Organic gardening has increasingly become an important part of the curriculum in schools around the world. Teachers in all grades are teaching it to students and are sometimes asked to give a speech to a group of parents. As a professional educator and director, I know the difficulty of opening time for speech preparation and offer this speech on organic gardening for your use. Feel free to edit it to fit your needs.
organic gardening speech
How selfish are you? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, how selfish would you rate yourself? If you’re a bit selfish, you might be interested in organic gardening.
A speech on organic gardening may seem more appropriate coming from a home economics professor, but I’m selfish enough to love organic gardening. I want to share that love with you and your children.
conceived
I want you to come with me, in your imagination, to a time and place before the Industrial Revolution. The year is 1707. We are at the end of summer. We find ourselves walking through the streets of a small town. The houses are well spaced for privacy. The land stretches out behind each house. As we look around, we notice that much of that land is taken up by gardens. Here and there, we see both adults and children actively participating in gardening. The plants are beautiful.
You call one of the adults and ask what they use to make the garden so lush. A wide smile opens, and through the smile come the words: “Feed the earth and the earth will feed the plants.”
You shake your head. Poor people. Too bad they don’t know about that miracle combination of chemicals you saw advertised on TV last week. That’s the easy way to grow spectacular plants!
Dinner
The organic gardener invites us to join them for dinner and we accept. At dinner, we join in the prayer of thanksgiving and then watch in awe as the children, one after another, start eating fresh vegetables.
You are not so fond of vegetables yourself, but politely take a small portion of each. You bite into a steamed cabbage leaf and your eyes widen in amazement. It’s sweet, twice as sweet as the cabbage you buy at your local market! You see a little boy stuff his mouth with dark green kale and wince. There’s a tiny spoonful of the nasty vegetable on your own plate, and you chop it up, putting a single tiny leaf in your mouth. Amazing! It’s also twice as sweet as any kale you’ve ever eaten. The same seems true for all the vegetables on the table. You decide that if the vegetables in the supermarket were so good, you would eat many more.
Our imaginary journey ends at that table and we return to the present.
Benefits of organic gardening
Organic gardening has many benefits. If you are completely selfish, you will want those benefits for yourself. If you are not selfish, you will want those benefits for your family. Let me give you just three of the benefits of organic gardening.
1. Taste: Organic gardening has been shown to produce tasty fruits and vegetables. A study from Hong Kong measured Brix levels, the percentage of sugar in plant juices, using organic and non-organic garden products. The results showed that organic gardening produced products that were 2 to 4 times sweeter than those produced by non-organic gardening. Sweeter fruits and vegetables are tastier and easier to eat, whether you’re a young person or an adult. The organic garden helps us eat better by providing us with more tasty fruits and vegetables.
2. Nutrition: Organic gardening has also been found to provide nutritionally superior produce. Virginia Worthington of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore compared the composition of vegetables grown simultaneously under different agricultural conditions. Her work included 41 studies with 1,240 comparisons of 35 vitamins and minerals. Worthington found that organic gardening produced vegetables and fruits that were higher in most minerals and vitamins than non-organic gardening. Not only that, organic garden products had less potentially harmful nitrates, which result from nitrogenous fertilizers. Dr. Worthington concluded that organic garden products are nutritionally superior. You and your family will enjoy better health with fruits and vegetables from the organic garden. (Effect of Farming Methods on Nutritional Quality: A Comparison of Organic vs. Conventional Crops, Virginia Worthington MS, ScD, CNS, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1998, Alternative Therapies, Volume 4, 1998, pages 58-69)
3. Exercise: Finally, organic gardening offers you and your children regular daily exercise in the fresh air. Organic gardening helps you build muscle, especially the important core muscles. Organic gardening brings you into the sunlight where you can absorb essential vitamin D. Organic gardening is an excellent tool for managing stress. Organic gardening gives you an outlet for creativity. It provides satisfaction to see that your work produces useful fruits, herbs and vegetables.
We could talk about the aesthetic pleasures of organic gardening: how beautiful such a garden could be. We could talk about how you can save money with organic gardening – growing your produce instead of buying it.
Finally, we could talk about how important it is for our children to learn about organic gardening, to embrace it as the path to better health, and to practice it in school, home, and community gardens.
A speech on organic gardening could last for hours, but I’ll stop here, hoping I’ve whetted your appetite enough to seek out more information on organic gardening.
Helpful Tip for Speakers
A few large bowls of beautiful organic produce can be placed on the shelf or around the room to help visual learners visualize organic gardening.
편도대여가 가능한가요 가족용 차량을 직접 운전하는 경우나 여행 시 특수 장비를 갖춘 장애인 차량이 필요한 경우 김포공항의 발레파킹 서비스를 이용하면 터미널까지 편리하게 이동할 수 있습니다. 아래 글에서는 비용, 김포공항 발레파킹 주차장 위치, 예약 전 알아두어야 할 사항에 대해 필요한 모...
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