Hey, friend, welcome back to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast. So gardening. It can be a lot of things. It can be exciting and invigorating and reviving and relaxing and it can also be pretty dang stressful

especially considering that summertime for many of us is the busiest time of

year and when you add one of the most

labor-intensive homestead aspects aka gardening to it well it can be a recipe for

stress and yes people like me love to preach about how

relaxing gardening can be and how it's so good for our brains and how it grounds us

and brings us back into balance.

All of those things are absolutely true.

But I also know from personal experience,

especially this year,

that gardening can also bring that level of tension and stress into your life

where your heart is pounding and you're feeling overwhelmed trying to figure out how to

keep everything watered, how to keep everything weeded and not let the garden bury you.

So today I'm going to talk about how we can grow the gardens that we want to grow,

raise the food that we want to raise without growing a crop of stress at the same time.

This is really timely for me right now, so I'm kind of preaching this to myself throughout

this episode, but if I had to guess, I bet some of you might benefit from this as well.

So this is the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast, the show where we talk about what we have left behind

as we have raced towards progress and how we can get it back.

I'm your host Jill Winger.

I've been living this Homestead lifestyle for a long time, way before it was cool.

And one of my favorite things to do is to teach these old-fashioned skills, but also to teach ways to be efficient and just smart as we add them into our modern lives.

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