1. When I eat food from my garden, I am eating responsibly.
2. When I am in my garden, I feel at peace.
3. The diversity and quality of tastes of food from my garden are amazing.
4. I love to take pictures of the food growing in my garden.
5. I garden to help preserve the world’s seed diversity.
6. When I step into my garden, my imagination runs wild at the life forms around me.
7. I garden to add texture/topography to my backyard.
8. I garden (and garden with heirloom seeds) because pollinators need good, clean food.
9. I garden to grow some food that my Great Grandma Nehring would have recognized as food.
10. I garden because it’s as locally grown as I can get.
11. I garden because it’s a great way to occupy yard space — good food for my household, good food for pollinators.