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

Episode 94: Growing Together

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

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On the heels of the #amplifymelanatedvoices initiative, we take pause to reflect on the national and international conversation happening. We hear excerpts from two episodes with two beautiful Black Plant People, Christopher from PlantKween and Colah from Black in the Garden, share inspiring stories about how the Plant Community rallied support the Black Lives Matters Movement, Maria and Bloom and Grow's commitments and end with a special poem and time for reflection.

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Hi plant friends.

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Welcome to episode 94 of

0:11.8

blue angro radio. 4 of. Blue Ango Radio.

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Hi Plant Friends, we are at the end of a whirlwind week for our country, the United States and our world, obviously, with everything going on with the

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Black Lives Matter movement.

0:28.2

On the heels of the hashtag Amplify Melinated Voices Movement.

0:32.8

I wanted to kind of extend last week

0:36.0

into this Tuesday when the show normally airs

0:39.0

and take a pause from our normal content

0:41.4

and amplify Black Voices in our plant community and

0:45.0

share some resources for how we can help and get involved and support and

0:50.0

be better allies.

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We're also going to end the podcast a little differently today.

0:54.0

I'm going to share a poem by the Black Poet and Gardner, Ross Gay, who I have fallen in love

0:59.8

with, a poem that I have read every day this week and the show is going to end with some music

1:05.2

for us to reflect on this beautiful poem, us to reflect on the beautiful black voices of

1:10.4

planty people that we have heard today and reflect on how we might

1:14.2

consider showing up to this movement, showing up for our plant people in this

1:19.4

community, showing up for each other like we show up for our plants. And Plan Friends, we are seeing

1:24.4

that within our plant community. If you have spent any time on social media in the last week,

1:29.4

there have been some really inspiring and creative ways that our plan community has been rallying to

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