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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Episode 88: Inspirational Stories and Ideas for Isolating Times:How to Help the Horticulture Industry Get Through

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, Wellness, Gardening, Leisure, Eco Therapy, Nature Therapy, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Houseplants, How To, Home & Garden, Mental Health, Plants

4.8912 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today I've compiled a list of inspirational people and companies doing amazing things to help the horticultural industry (and world) during these trying times. This episode is meant to make you aware of several amazing movements that you might want to get involved with, and give you some fun educational resources to use with your quarantine downtime! I'm so inspired after learning about them!

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Hi Plant Friends, welcome to episode 88 of

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Dungo Radio. Hi my sweet plant friends, I hope you are doing well.

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I am currently recording this episode from my bedroom because Billy and I are isolating,

0:26.4

quarantined in our 500 square foot apartment and he's on a conference call so one of the

0:31.6

I posted about it on Instagram this week but one of the

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funny adjustments for us is learning how to both run our businesses in such a small place

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so all of my interviews and podcast episodes are being recorded from my bed so I'm super cozy

0:45.2

coming at you from Long Island City day 17 or 18 of quarantine now I've unfortunately

0:51.3

lost count Billy and I both lost our sense of smell and

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sense of taste last week so we are pretty sure that we are probably carriers of

1:00.4

COVID that is a symptom for asymptomatic people so we are really doing our

1:05.6

due diligence to stay inside wear masks protect we're fine but protect those

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around us that we could potentially get sick.

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My mom has started her garden and my siblings when my sister and her boyfriend went home and

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Billy and I haven't been able to because we're nervous that we're carriers and my mom has started her garden and it has been so hard for me not to go home and garden with my mom right now

1:28.8

But I'm just taking that energy and throwing it into our house plants

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So Plant for taking that energy and throwing it into our house plants.

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So Plan Friends, it's a little bit of a scary time right now and I really oscillate between

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being so fed up about talking about Corona and COVID and this pandemic and how it's affecting but then also

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I'm having these moments of complete overwhelming gratitude and awe watching our community and our society respond to this crazy time.

1:57.2

I mean we are living in times that are completely unprecedented.

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