In Psychology
9 Best Articles in 2020
Psychology Today
Why We Garden
Psychology Today
5 min read · 107 saves · Apr 11th · The psychology and philosophy of gardening.
The New Yorker
The Therapeutic Power of Gardening
The New Yorker
5 min read · 134 saves · Aug 24th · Rebecca Mead · Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes.
The Guardian
How gardening helped me live with love and loss
The Guardian
8 min read · 26 saves · Aug 15th · My love of gardening is a constant comfort and has a deep resonance with my family’s history, says Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
In Health
The Verge
How spending more time at home might affect your health
The Verge
4 min read · 85 saves · Jul 15th · Justine Calma · New habits like cooking and indoor gardening can come with costs and benefits
In Biology
The Guardian
More birds and bees, please! 12 easy, expert ways to rewild your garden
The Guardian
9 min read · 71 saves · May 12th · Amy Fleming · Now is the perfect time to boost the biodiversity of any outside space you have – whether by buying your cat a bell or…
The Guardian
Green therapy: How gardening is helping to fight depression
The Guardian
4 min read · 14 saves · 2019-05-13 · Sarah Johnson · A growing movement is promoting the role gardening can play in patient recovery and rehabilitation
Brain Pickings
An Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening
Brain Pickings
2 min read · 36 saves · Jul 25th · Maria Popova · A lush serenade to the patience and fortitude of living with uncertainty and letting life unfold on its own terms.
The New York Times
Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
The New York Times
5 min read · 50 saves · 2019-04-18 · Oliver Sacks · Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication.
The New Yorker
The Tonic of Gardening in Quarantine
The New Yorker
3 min read · 23 saves · Apr 7th · We all know in theory that nature brings peace, but now, more than ever, we should self-prescribe a dose of it.
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The Guardian
No-dig mulch – with bonus mushrooms
The Guardian
2 min read · 18 saves · Sep 13th · James Wong · Here’s a great little gardening secret: chips with everything. By James Wong
The Guardian
Rage, white supremacy and roses: the art that sums up the Trump era
The Guardian
10 min read · 10 saves · Oct 6th · CocoRosie’s call to arms, a mauling from Michelle Wolf, Arthur Jafa’s white supremacy montage and Melania Trump’s gardening … Guardian writers pick the moments…
steipete.com
Gardening Your Twitter: Curating Your Timeline
steipete.com
4 min read · Oct 21st · Peter Steinberger · Your timeline defines your Twitter experience. Learn strategies how to pick your followers, how to hide what’s not interesting and how to mute negative…
The Guardian
Monty Don: ‘Everything about gardening is personal. It heals my troubled brain’
The Guardian
6 min read · Oct 3rd · Matt Collins · Fresh from a tour of America’s green spaces, the Gardeners’ World presenter broadcast from home during lockdown. He talks about horticulture, history and loss
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The New York Times
Heal Me With Plants
The New York Times
4 min read · 14 saves · 2019-03-25 · Ellie Shechet · Gentle gardening helps patients at some hospitals relax and recover.
The Guardian
No-dig mulch – with bonus mushrooms
The Guardian
2 min read · 18 saves · Sep 13th · James Wong · Here’s a great little gardening secret: chips with everything. By James Wong
The New York Times
Exercise May Help to Fend Off Depression
The New York Times
4 min read · 20 saves · 2019-02-14 · Jogging for 15 minutes a day, or walking or gardening for somewhat longer, could help protect people against developing depression.
Know Your Team
What great managers do: Prune
Know Your Team
2 min read · 15 saves · 2019-05-19 · Claire Lew · Being a great manager and English gardening have more in common than you might imagine. Both involve pruning – and doing so in the…
Fast Company
Princeton researchers discover that home gardening is basically the answer to society’s ills
Fast Company
14 saves · May 12th · Arianne Cohen · Why are you not home gardening? A new study from the Princeton University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering says everyone should.
The Guardian
We need to learn how to relax, without guilt
The Guardian
5 min read · 29 saves · 2019-12-07 · Claudia Hammond · Being busy all the time is part of the way we live. But, whether gardening, reading or spacing out on the sofa, taking time…
TED Talks
A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
TED Talks
11 saves · From 2013 · Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for…
Brain Pickings
Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
Brain Pickings
4 min read · 15 saves · From 2016 · “It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.”
The Guardian
Rooftop farming: why vertical gardening is blooming in Kampala
The Guardian
5 min read · 14 saves · From 2018 · Ugandans are finding creative solutions to the growing challenges of urbanisation
