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Okay. Gardenproject.com. Hello, it's season three. We're back. I'm Jessica Mernan, and this is the inside and outside

podcast. If this is your first time here, welcome. A little background after really finding

the incredible benefits of nature and gardening on my own mental and emotional and physical health, I wanted to do the same

for other people. So I went back to school. I studied to become a horticultural therapy practitioner.

And now I get to help people find their own connections to nature through gardening, learning

to grow, flower pressing, just ways of connecting people to the natural earth.

Now, I also really still love watching shitty TV. I love fashion. I love pop culture. I like

internet gossip. So we bring those two things together. Every week I bring a guest on and we talk

a little nature and then we talk a little pop culture.

A couple changes to this season. I'm moving the show to Thursdays. We don't even need to get into the reasons why it's boring.

But two, most episodes, this season will be a little shorter and a little bit more topical.

We'll do a piece of nature news or a cool journal or research study and then we'll dive right

into pop culture. Some episodes will be a little bit on the longer side if I'm talking to an author

or we're talking about a bigger topic. But otherwise, they're going to be shorter, sweeter,

light, and fun. This week is going to be

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