Gardening and Loneliness

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Mention that you like gardening, and you’ll spark someone’s interest. Occupational Horticulturalist, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago experiences this with her friends and neighbors on a regular basis. Though gardening can be a solitary practice, it brings people together. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3U589FxBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3vIeFJ8Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3PRAb4OEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49pZRfOLearn More:Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You HealthConnect With Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago:Perla Sofía Curbelo-Santiago is a professional garden communicator from Puerto Rico. As the founder of Spanish language gardening platform Agrochic.com, she promotes gardening for wellness. She is the author of the new book ¡Verdura! Living a Garden Life, also in Spanish. After earning degrees in Psychology and Public Relations, Perla was certified in Horticulture Therapy from the Chicago Botanic Garden. She popularized the importance of pausing and relaxing through a #GardenBreak. With this hashtag, she shares how to use nature and gardening-based activities to maintain physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Instagram Website Resource Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are a pandemic,
0:04.0	if you are a pandemic garden or someone who got into gardening in the last few years,
0:17.6	I think this idea of gardening to improve social skills or to stave off loneliness, etc.
0:23.8	It may or may not resonate.
0:25.1	I think during that period of time,
0:26.6	a lot of us were isolated, almost by necessity,
0:30.2	and also kind of maybe wanted to be. that was like okay for that period of time but we have
0:36.3	Parla Sophia Carbelo Santiago back on the show I think that was probably the my worst
0:41.5	pronunciation this week,
0:42.8	but I'm doing my best, a professional garden
0:45.3	communicator from Puerto Rico,
0:47.4	and she's also a certified horticultural therapist as well.
0:50.8	And I think to me what's interesting here is you don't maybe think
0:54.8	Perra about gardening combining well with with social skills or helping with
1:00.0	loneliness so I'm kind of curious where your your head goes there.
1:03.0	Well definitely is something that when I mention people that
1:09.0	for temple I write about gardening, you see people smile.
1:14.3	Like, ooh, and that was for me something
1:17.8	at the very beginning when I decided to focus on gardening
1:21.0	as part of my professional communication career. I was like, I like people to smile. I like people to ask you a question. I like how people start talking like oh I used to garden with my grandmother with my parents or they start
1:38.6	talking about you know open up about the things that they have in their garden you just have to mention that you like gardening and there's so many people that
1:46.1	you like gardening and there's so many people that are freely talking to you
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