Pots Full of Raspberries with Laura Wright
INSIDE | OUTSIDE with Jessica Murnane
Jessica Murnane
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
About this week’s guest: Laura Wright is the founder of The First Mess, a blog for plant-based recipe inspiration as well as a of cookbook of the same name. Hailing from the Niagara region of southern Ontario, Laura enjoys taking on way too many projects in the garden, hiking with her dogs, working on a weekly feel-good newsletter, dilly dallying, and doing pretty much any offline activity.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the inside outside podcast where my guests and I talk about our first nature memories, the ways that nature have impacted us, and then we talk about |
| 0:22.6 | an inside obsession, TV, books, movies, pop culture, internet gossip, sometimes a wildcard topic, |
| 0:29.3 | which our guests brought today. I'm Jessica Marnan, author, horticultural therapy practitioner, |
| 0:35.3 | and founder of Basker, where I help people use gardening |
| 0:39.5 | in nature with their mental, emotional, physical, and social well-being. As always, before we start |
| 0:47.0 | the show, I share a reason why I love to grow things. And in no particular order, reason number three of why I like to grow things |
| 0:56.6 | to have more hope. And I know that sounds like a big, grandiose statement, but I'm telling you, |
| 1:05.9 | a few years ago, my mother-in-law sent me a card that had a quote on it from Audrey Hepburn, and the |
| 1:12.3 | quote said, to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. And I use that card now as a bookmark |
| 1:19.6 | because I think it's fun to tuck it away and then to see it over and over again when I open up a book. |
| 1:24.9 | But that phrase, to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. |
| 1:31.4 | I know. It doesn't sound like it could be possible, but I'm telling you, there is so much hope |
| 1:36.9 | when you grow. And tending to a garden has been shown to help with depression, anxiety, |
| 1:43.3 | and to feel more deeply connected to your |
| 1:45.9 | community. And when I say community, I feel like every single online brand right now is like, |
| 1:51.7 | join our community. Like when I say community, I'm talking about your actual neighbor, the people |
| 1:58.1 | in real life that you live next to. And we don't need to get into what's going on in the |
| 2:04.4 | world right now. But I think feeling more connected to our communities believing in tomorrow, |
| 2:09.8 | just that simple phrase, is really important for a lot of us right now. So it's my number three |
| 2:16.1 | reason of why I love to grow, hope. And this is |
| 2:19.6 | exciting. My group growing sessions, both the virtual and in person, have sold out. And it just makes |
| 2:27.8 | me excited that A, people are coming together, B, they're going to learn this new skill to grow. |
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