Reducing Stress in the Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Sometimes the garden can actually be a source of stress. But there are ways to mitigate your garden stresses with garden joys. The source of this joy is shifting towards a #GardenBreak. Relax, restore, do nothing sometimes, and tackle plant problems as they arise.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4cOKq43Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aoijafBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/43L8pwEEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4aKQoAPLearn 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	Over the last 12 years gardening, every single season I have a different relationship to the
0:19.9	garden.
0:23.0	This is fun.
0:24.0	Let's just try to grow some stuff.
0:25.0	And 12 years later with, you know, a team and employees and a seed company.
0:31.0	It's a different relationship to the garden I have to admit and so we have
0:34.4	Parola Santiago back on the show professional garden communicator from Puerto Rico as
0:39.7	well as a certified horticultural therapist from the Chicago Botanic Garden.
0:45.0	Stress in the garden or stress in life, I think people get into gardening parallel to reduce stress.
0:52.0	And somewhere around the three or fourth season mark I think a lot of people who
0:56.4	really get into it it might start to become a source of stress I don't know if that's
1:01.1	the same with you or if you can relate.
1:03.0	Oh yes definitely sometimes plants can give you even more stress than other things in your life and And because you care for that and you put so much effort into it
1:17.7	and you start, even when they are in the sibling phase, you start stressing out about what it's going to happen if I don't get the tomatoes, I don't get the eggplants or the things that I'm visualizing.
1:32.8	So that, going into that motion,
1:36.0	set us in a stressful way when probably
1:40.0	you started doing because, oh, I want to relax in the garden.
1:45.0	So it is normal, but I think when you have done,
1:49.8	other areas that you can focus in the garden that so you can enjoy, you know, while you
1:57.3	wait and of course it's not bad that you have stress. The bad thing is that you are always in the same state. You know you don't get you
2:08.8	don't let your body your mind to rest and recuperate.
2:14.3	We're always in that level.
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