326: Summer Rayne Oakes - How To Make A Plant Love You
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Summer Rayne Oakes (IG: @homesteadbrooklyn) is an entrepreneur, author and media host whose work focuses on health, wellness and sustainability.
Her website, Homestead Brooklyn and YouTube series, Plant One On Me, help reconnect people to nature through the beauty of plants and gardening. Summer's latest book came out this past July, How to Make a Plant Love You.
You may see her in Brooklyn hanging out at her local community garden with her pet chicken, Kippee, or tending to her own copious indoor jungle of over 1100 plants.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Being a self-confessed crazy plant lady
- Having over 1100 plants in a Brooklyn apartment
- Connecting people to the deeper level of nature
- House plant trends around the world
- The origin behind Summer Rayne Oakes' name
- Growing up enjoying the outdoors
- Bringing sustainability to the fashion world
- Create the community you want to live in
- You always remember your 1st plant… Summer's fiddle leaf fig
- The benefits of building a ritual with your plants
- Understanding quality and quantity of light, water, & soil
- There is a plant for everyone
- The ZZ plant can grow under any conditions
- What is a par meter?
- Watering & soil techniques
- When to re-pot your plants
- Getting your plants on a fertilizing schedule
- 365 days of plants project
- Active observation of plants
- How to thrive like a plant
- Plants are sensitive to fluoride & chlorine in water
- Life with Kippee... the pet chicken
- Remove sugar from your diet, focus on whole foods
- Foraging for mushrooms
- Practicing community gardening
- Feeding yourself and the world around you
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Related links:
Summer Rayne Oakes - How to Make a Plant Love You (book)
Summer Rayne Oakes' website (Homestead Brooklyn)
Follow Summer Rayne Oakes on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Subscribe to Summer Rayne Oakes on YouTube (Plant One On Me)
Summer Rayne Oakes - SugarDetoxMe (book)
Dan Nosowitz - Meet a Woman Who Keeps 500 plants in Her Brooklyn Apartment (Modern Farmer article)
Ep 024: Fiddle Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata) Care (Plant One On Me - YouTube)
Houseplant 101: What Plant is Right for My Space? — Ep 116 (Plant On On Me - YouTube)
One Plant a Day: 365 Days of Plants!!! (Plant One On Me - YouTube)
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of headlines came out where it was like the new cat lady is the plant lady. |
| 0:04.0 | So I think there is this level of craziness factor that was associated with it. |
| 0:08.1 | But I actually don't think people are crazy who have plants. |
| 0:10.8 | I do think that people without plants are a little bit crazy. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 326. |
| 0:24.4 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:29.3 | Each week we'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, covering |
| 0:34.4 | topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:39.2 | And today we are sharing with you a really fun, interesting conversation we had with Summer Rain Oaks. |
| 0:44.0 | Oakes. |
| 0:45.0 | She's an entrepreneur, author and media host whose work focuses on health, wellness and sustainability. |
| 0:51.0 | Her website, Homestead Brooklyn, and YouTube series Plant One Office, and The latest book came out this past July, How to Make a Plant Love You, and this book was the focus of today's chat. |
| 1:06.1 | You may see her in Brooklyn hanging out at her local community garden with her pet chicken |
| 1:10.2 | Kippee or tending to her own copious indoor jungle of over 1,100 plants. |
| 1:16.3 | You heard that correctly. |
| 1:17.3 | It's incredible and Summer really is truly inspiring and makes you want to have more plants at home. She does make it |
| 1:24.2 | look so easy. When you get a chance to look at a picture of her apartment at home, you |
| 1:30.5 | cannot believe how many plants just swarm her space and they all |
| 1:34.1 | look so healthy and thriving and she has definitely inspired Jesse and I to up our |
| 1:38.6 | game and start getting more plants at home we have a few but we definitely want to get more of |
| 1:44.6 | them. So here's what we talk about in today's show with summer. We discuss how summer is a |
| 1:48.8 | self-confessed crazy plant lady, what house plant-plant-lady, what house plant |
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