Summary
For the last few weeks, our “Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” series has been all about helping you find ways to enrich your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life.
Today, we talk to plant expert Tara Heibel, who owns a garden center called Sprout Home here in Chicago and also in Brooklyn, about why you might want to consider putting some of your anxious energy towards helping something simple grow.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:15.0 | From W B easy Chicago, this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson and I am still on the floor of my bedroom |
| 0:24.4 | closet which means this must be another edition of Nurdette's introverts guide to |
| 0:28.9 | the good life. So you don't need me to tell you that these are extremely tumultuous times. |
| 0:37.0 | And something that we've talked about in various iterations on this show, |
| 0:40.1 | especially over the last couple of months is the importance of slowing down and |
| 0:44.8 | taking a breath and making sure you're able to appreciate the small things. |
| 0:49.7 | One way I've been doing that, maybe kind of weirdly, is actually through enjoying all of my house |
| 0:57.4 | plans. I mean, especially since I've been like working from home this whole time, it's, |
| 1:01.6 | I'm actually getting a lot of quality time in with that. And I have a bunch. I've got |
| 1:06.8 | like a big rubber plant and a little rubber plant and a fiddlehead fig and like a little money tree and I've got three monasteras now and 14 other ones that I like to think at least need me as much as I need them. So to explain why you also might enjoy having a plant or two |
| 1:29.4 | around is expert Tara Heible, she's the founder of Sprout Home, which is a plant store. There's one here in Chicago and there's one in Brooklyn as well. |
| 1:37.6 | Tara, hey! Hello! Thank you for taking the time and it's fun to chat with you. For people who are like old school listeners of Nurdett, |
| 1:46.5 | Tara was our expert when we talked to Jenny Slate about houseplants, which like, oh my God, what a great episode huh was really fun oh I just love |
| 1:55.7 | her so much so Tara for people who might be skeptical about like the |
| 2:00.8 | psychological benefits of having house plants or gardening what would you say? |
| 2:05.0 | Well I mean plants are living things you take care of them, you know with not being able to see your friends go and hug them and with this whole |
| 2:16.7 | entire you know Zoom meetings and everybody becoming even more in tune with their phone or their computer. |
| 2:24.4 | I think that having plants around is a moment of respite within and otherwise kind of, |
| 2:31.6 | you know, void a socialization in a real way world that we're living in right now. |
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