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Invest in your health by setting up your very own organic kitchen garden

Growing fruits and veggies on your terrace or other available space is neither expensive nor difficult. And since the produce is chemical-free, there are huge health benefits

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You can build food gardens in your own backyard or terrace with special planter boxes made of wood, metal or brick. These come with adequate drainage at the bottom. Picture courtesy: Edible Routes

Namrata Kohli New Delhi

9 min read Last Updated : May 25 2020 | 1:17 AM IST

You would have heard the adage: You are what you eat. Arizona-based software engineer Umesh Rohilla has taken that wisdom to heart, investing all his non-working hours to creating a kitchen garden, which today is blossoming with a wide range of vegetables, fruits and herbs.

Back home in Delhi, his parents are delighted at the evolution of their lad, who earlier “had nothing to do with kitchen or garden, both of which were alien concepts”. Perhaps the turning point was his shifting to his countryside home in the US, where his twins were born.

Today his all-organic garden covers an

Topics : Coronavirus Organic food Organic Harvest Vegetables fruit

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