Garden for your Best Life

Like many Oprah admirers, I’ve been motivated to increase my physical fitness by taking part in her Best Life Challenge. I like the fact that her trainer, Bob Greene, describes the Best Life Challenge as a lifestyle and not a crash diet. Since working in my organic garden is part of my lifestyle, I feel like I’ve already accomplished something without making a big change.

If you want to improve your health and increase your energy by doing something you already enjoy, consider that you could burn up to 500 calories per hour engaging in common gardening activities that include lawn mowing, raking, and general weeding, mulching, or hauling. Isn’t it serendipitous that all of this expended energy also yields chemical-free vegetables to nourish our bodies?