Gardening For Wellness

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Gardening is not just about epic yields. It also benefits your overall well being. This fact is the reason that Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago decided to pursue a career in Horticultural Therapy. With conscious adjustments, people can glean so much more than great food from their gardens.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4cMPmpMBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/49qt76pBookCollection Page: https://growepic.co/49rWTHYEGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4cKok2mLearn More:Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You HealthierConnect 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: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've been listening to the Beat Podcast for a little bit or maybe even a few years now,
0:18.4	you know that I've gone on quite a journey myself through the different reasons that I like to garden and these days a lot of it is a better health for myself a better life a better mental for myself, let alone all the produce of course that you can grow.
0:36.0	And so I'm really excited. This week's going to be a fun one. We have Parala Sophia Corbelo Santiago on the show.
0:42.0	She's a professional garden
0:43.8	communicator from Puerto Rico. We actually met a couple months back
0:47.8	Parla at the National Flower and Garden show up in Seattle, so it's great to meet you.
0:52.8	It's really cool to have you on the show talking about, I think a topic that a lot of us know
0:58.5	is part of why we might garden, but this is something that you do for a living I mean you you are certified in
1:04.8	horticulture therapy from the Chicago Botanic Garden so maybe we could just start
1:08.7	there horticultural therapy what is that?
1:12.0	Hey Kevin thank you for having me and yes,
1:15.0	horticultural therapy is using, it's a health modality and it's using plants,
1:21.0	your garden, the gardening process, your gardening activity, with a wellness
1:26.3	objective, a very specific objective so you can measure how you are progressing.
1:33.0	So that's simple.
1:35.0	That is horticulture therapy.
1:39.0	And of course you can apply it in different scenarios at home at school at university, hospital, everywhere.
1:48.3	So yeah, it is something that I'm passionate about.
1:52.1	How did you get into it?
1:53.5	Because I think a lot of people,
1:54.5	when they think about careers in gardening or horticulture,
1:57.8	you don't think about a therapeutic angle.
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