Mental Health Benefits of Gardening

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jordan and I chat about the mental health benefits of gardening, including this Royal Horticultural Society study and this Attention Restoration Theory study. Connect With Jordan Mara: Jordan is the founder of Mind & Soil, a company that provides natural and organic gardening products and has a mission to help 1,000,000+ people connect with the mental health benefits of gardening. Mind & Soil Facebook Instagram YouTube Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back my friends to the Epic Gardening podcast Kevin Espiritu here I'm joined by
0:18.8	Jordan the founder of Mind and Soil we talked a little bit about I guess his origin
0:24.2	story into the world of gardening yesterday and it had a lot to do with just
0:29.5	finding some peace and tranquility and mental health benefits in the garden Jordan and I would say I
0:36.0	definitely didn't start out this way I don't think that I really wanted to do
0:40.5	gardening simply for that reason but I have found a lot of benefits in that realm you know
0:46.3	just like a sense of tranquility a sense of peace mindfulness and so I'm curious for you where
0:50.7	that kind of was a big reason why you started what are some of these benefits that you found yeah
0:56.1	absolutely and I think there's kind of like three layers to this that we can go through the first is
1:00.8	like anecdotal the second is more like studies and scientific and then I'd say the third area would
1:06.1	be like my kind of personal philosophy around what's happening and at the like anecdotal level in
1:12.3	terms of like how I first got into gardening and what you were just alluding to there and it was
1:16.8	like a lot of fun when I was lining up this podcast and emailing with Chris and like on her bio she
1:23.4	alludes to how cathartic and peaceful she found the gardening process over the last years or last
1:29.3	year as she really started to get her hands dirty so there's kind of like this overwhelming just like
1:35.6	number of anecdotes from individuals that like I feel good when I garden so then let's go a layer
1:42.9	deeper than that and start to think through kind of like what's actually you know maybe happening
1:47.1	or are there any studies that back this and the Royal Horticultural Society over in the UK partnered
1:54.0	with a couple of universities over there to study and actually understand like does having greenery
1:59.3	in and around you on your front patio ultimately make you less stressed and so in this study that they
2:07.0	did over the course of the year at the beginning of it they measured the cortisol levels which is the
2:11.9	stressed level that an individual is you know basically experiencing and they found that only 24%
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