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Volume 6 Issue 2
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Serving the Inland Empire Communities
Can a New California state law help you and your legal efforts?
Where are the best employment opportunities for our Veterans? This list shows where to look for work. Page 6
Saying Happy Birthday 100 Times. A Century Milestone.
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The legendary voice of a generation passes. We remember him on Page 8.
Springing Into Gardening Flowers And Vegetables Starting a flower and/or a vegetables garden could be the best project that one could do. “When you sit at a desk all day on the freeway trying to get home and then the difference chores that will be waiting for you, you can know that your garden is there for you. There’s something about literally putting your hands in the dirt, digging and actually creating something that’s really beautiful, ”Many gardeners view their hobby as the perfect antidote to the modern world, a way of reclaiming some of the intangible things we’ve lost in our busy, dirt-free lives. Working in the garden has spiritual rewards in addition to being a source of fresh, healthy produce gardening can ease stress, keep you limber, and even improve your mood. It can relieves stress even better than other relaxing leisure activities such as reading a book for some. It has been suggested that we can replenish ourselves by engaging in “involuntary attention,” an effortless form of attention that we use to enjoy nature. Trading your Technology cells phones for beautiful flower bushes is an excellent way to fight stress and attention fatigue. “The breeze blows, things get dew on them, beautiful flowers, the sounds, the smells is a healthy way to relax. The effortless attention of gardening may even help improve depression symptoms. In a study conducted, people who had been diagnosed with depression, persistent low mood, or “bipolar II disorder” spent six hours a week growing flowers and vegetables. After three months, half of the participants had experienced a measurable improvement in their depression symptoms. What’s more, their mood continued to be better three months after the gardening program ended. The researchers suggest that the novelty of gardening may have been enough to jolt some of the participants out of their
doldrums, but some experts have a much more radical explanation for how gardening might ease depression. Gardening gets you out in the fresh air and sunshine -- and it also gets your blood moving. There are lots of different movements in gardening, so you get some exercise benefits out of it as well,” digging, planting, weeding, and other repetitive tasks that require strength or stretching are excellent forms of low-impact exercise. People are more likely to stick with low-impact exercise such as gardening. Brain health some researchers suggest that the physical activity associated with gardening can help lower the risk of developing dementia. Two separate studies that followed people in their 60s and 70s for up to 16 years found, respectively, that those who gardened regularly had a 36% and 47% lower risk of dementia than non-gardeners, even when a range of other health factors were taken into account. These findings are hardly definitive, but they suggest that the combination of physical and mental activity involved in gardening may have a positive influence on the mind. Nutrition comes along with the food you grow yourself it is the freshest food you can eat. And because home gardens are filled with fruits and vegetables, it’s also among the healthiest food you can eat. People who are growing food tend to eat healthy. You don’t need a big backyard or a green thumb to benefit from gardening. If you have very little space or experience, you can start out with just a few houseplants, or you could even try gardening in containers. You can grow a wonderful crop of cherry tomatoes in nothing more than a five-gallon bucket that you’ve cleaned really well and put holes in the bottom of it. For novices who want to learn the basics of gardening, a huge and somewhat overwhelming variety of information is available on the Web.
Make a Salsa Garden this Spring! Beans: Planting either bush or pole beans. Beets: Sow beets. Cabbage: Be sure to fertilize and water when cabbage head begins to form. Carrots: Plant carrots. Corn: One of the fastest growing crops to grow. Cucumbers: Fast growing bush cucumber plants can produce an abundance of fruits. Herbs: Plant heat loving herbs like basil, oregano, thyme and sage. Lettuce: Start a crop of salad mix greens that gets a lot of sun but not all day. Melons: Plant melons of any kind. Onions: Be careful to select an onion variety appropriate for your garden zone. Peas: Green peas and sugar peas are good. Peppers: Plant Peppers, take up little space and produce high yields. Summer Squash: Plant squash. Tomatoes: Plant tomatoes. For Advertising, Subscription, or Bulk Delivery informaiton , please call (909) 973-2927. Thank you for reading.