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9 Best Articles in 2021
Psychology Today
Why We GardenPsychology Today
5 min read · 2020-04-11 · The psychology and philosophy of gardening.
psychology
gardening
Refinery29 UK
Too Many Thoughts Living Rent-Free In Your Head? Try Mind GardeningRefinery29 UK
5 min read · Feb 27th · It's like making sure your ideas are welcome tenants, instead of living rent-free in your head.
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There is, for example, the tool called Roam Research. It makes it really easy to add new ideas to it, to connect your new ideas to past ideas, and to explore your mind garden by navigating these connections.
Rest of World
The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTokRest of World
6 min read · Jun 24th · How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.
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The devices allowed the migrants to document their experiences, and in recent years, content filmed by factory workers has become its own established genre on Chinese video platforms like Kuaishou and Douyin
Factory TikTok, in other words, isn’t about workers documenting their own labor, but is primarily a marketing scheme devised by their employers, many of whom may be under increasing financial pressure.
a team of 30 people operates nearly 200 TikTok accounts at any given time. The company essentially acts as a middleman service, connecting Chinese manufacturers to foreign customers without the need for an unpredictable platform like Amazon, which last month banned a number of major sellers based in China.
Brain Pickings
Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building ParadiseBrain Pickings
5 min read · Apr 24th · “Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.”
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Gardening situates you in a different kind of time, the antithesis of the agitating present of social media. Time becomes circular, not chronological
Every arc, after all, is but a segment of a circle. What it takes to draw our share of it with a steady hand as we try “widening our circles of compassion” without the assurance of immediate results — that is the question we each answer with our lives.
Each moment we are fully paying attention is an atom of eternity. The quality of our attention measures the quantity of our aliveness — our sole generator of resistance and persistence.
Brain Pickings
The Secret of Happiness: Bronson Alcott on Gardening and GeniusBrain Pickings
3 min read · May 20th · “Every plant one tends he falls in love with… Only persons of perennial genius attract or recreate as the plants, and of books we may say the same, as of the magic of solitude.”
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psychology
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“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy,” Louisa May Alcott wrote in her diary just after she turned eleven, a quarter century before Little Women bloomed from that uncommon mind — a mind whose pleasures and powers were nurtured by the profound love of nature her father wove into the philosophical and scientific education he gave his four daughters.
so unabashedly reverent of nature as the only divinity
The Guardian
How gardening helped me live with love and lossThe Guardian
8 min read · 2020-08-15 · My love of gardening is a constant comfort and has a deep resonance with my family’s history, says Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The Verge
How spending more time at home might affect your healthThe Verge
5 min read · 2020-07-15 · New habits like cooking and indoor gardening can come with costs and benefits
health
sciencefocus.com
Gardening just twice a week improves wellbeing and relieves stresssciencefocus.com
2 min read · Apr 28th · Gardening can expend similar amounts of energy to a session at the gym, researchers say.
mental health
The New Yorker
The Therapeutic Power of GardeningThe New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-08-17 · Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes.
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Guardian politics
The law of unintended consequencesGuardian politics
1 min read · Oct 10th · Brief letters: Labour | Steve Bell | Biscuits and gardening | MPs’ pay | Language | NHS
Guardian Books
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit reviewGuardian Books
4 min read · Oct 19th · Inspired by George Orwell’s love of gardening, Solnit’s suitably rambling book should appeal to the green-fingered and the politically committed alike
The New York Times
Black Gardeners Find Refuge in the SoilThe New York Times
~13 min read · Oct 27th · Gardening boomed during the pandemic. Six Black writers share how it has helped them re-establish, and reimagine, a connection to cultivation and the land.
VICE
Anti-Vaxxer Preppers Are Offering Courses on Gardening, Chess and Urban WarfareVICE
4 min read · Oct 7th · Experts told VICE World News they were concerned at the War Time Mind group's dual promotion of violent prepper fantasies and anti-vax ideology.
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The Guardian
Green therapy: How gardening is helping to fight depressionThe Guardian
4 min read · From 2019 · A growing movement is promoting the role gardening can play in patient recovery and rehabilitation
The Boston Globe
Sowing seeds of climate action in the gardenThe Boston Globe
4 min read · 2020-12-27 · The deeper into gardening you get, the more you see that you are really growing soil — which is a crucial carbon reservoir.
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The Guardian
We need to learn how to relax, without guiltThe Guardian
6 min read · 2019-12-07 · Being busy all the time is part of the way we live. But, whether gardening, reading or spacing out on the sofa, taking time to rest is just as important
Brain Pickings
Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for…Brain Pickings
6 min read · Apr 5th · “The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
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Fast Company
Princeton researchers discover that home gardening is basically the answer to society’s illsFast Company
1 min read · 2020-05-12 · Why are you not home gardening? A new study from the Princeton University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering says everyone should.
Guardian US
'Make America rake again': Four Seasons Total Landscaping cashes in on Trump fiascoGuardian US
2 min read · 2020-11-09 · Gardening firm, situated between crematorium and sex shop, played comic role in final throes of president’s campaign
Brain Pickings
An Illustrated Love Letter to GardeningBrain Pickings
3 min read · 2020-07-25 · A lush serenade to the patience and fortitude of living with uncertainty and letting life unfold on its own terms.
The Guardian
More birds and bees, please! 12 easy, expert ways to rewild your gardenThe Guardian
9 min read · 2020-05-12 · Now is the perfect time to boost the biodiversity of any outside space you have – whether by buying your cat a bell or ditching the insecticides
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bees
gardening
The New York Times
He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate Change.The New York Times
~12 min read · Jul 28th · Over 45 years, his advice to Alaskans has changed with the transformation of the planet.
climate crisis
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