Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery. Welcome to summer series slash winter warmies.

Still making that same dumb joke. Yep. Number one, happy new year. Welcome to 2019.

We're going to have for, like we did last year,

whole month dedicated to the best of 2018.

We are indeed.

We've got five really, really wonderful episodes coming at you over the next few weeks.

Before we get into it, I really hope you all had a wonderful new year and that 2019 is the year that you slow down. Yeah. The year that you find something that you've been looking

for. Absolutely. We're going to kickstart this series with an episode that we recorded way back in March of 2018.

And it followed what I'm going to say is our best experiment of 2018.

And that was The Great Outdoors.

Yes, the nature experiment.

We spent an hour every day in March in nature. It was really

transformative, I think. That was. It was. And it was tough for me being in that great outdoors

in the middle of March in the Rocky Mountains. No, where were we? Nelson. We were in Nelson. Yeah.

But it was lovely. In the end, it was, yeah, as I said, one of the best experiments we did.

So this episode is with Florence Williams.

And it was all about the importance of getting your nature fix.

Exactly. So Florence wrote a book called The Nature Fix. I think it was late 2017.

And it is a fantastic look at why nature is so important, but also how the typical urban

dweller can invite more nature into their lives and the benefits of that.

So the timing could not have been better for this episode because we were so jazzed on

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