In this broad-ranging conversation, Katie and her guest Dr. Nate Charach, a Toronto-based psychiatrist, discuss the gardening benefits for wellbeing. Nate explains how he uses gardening in his practice, and speaks about how important it is for people to reconnect to nature.
Katie and Nate talk about how growing things helps us understand seasonality and the life’s natural pace, and Nate describes how climate change, sadness and grief are intertwined.
From Nate, we learn that a useful way to begin to deal with eco-anxiety is to first allow ourselves to feel sad about climate change, and suggests it can help to become more aware of what is working and changing for the good (rather than focusing on what isn’t working).
Does gardening help you deal with climate anxiety? Let us know in the comments below.
Watch the full episode to get a book recommendation from Nate!
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Gardenstead is an online gardening community and plant lovers channel of gardeners who love to get their hands dirty, both indoors and outdoors. Our gardeners run the gamut. They are vegetable gardeners, houseplant nurturers, small space gardening engineers, herbalists, flower enthusiasts and succulent aficionados.
Our goal has always been to connect gardeners in an inclusive gardening community, foster and share knowledge, and make gardening resources available to everyone.
As we grow, we seek to expand our conversations about gardening and to cultivate a mindful embrace of nature and the healing and grounding properties to be found in it.
Plants cultivate connections between people — from urban settings of balcony gardens and small spaces to rural backyards with larger and more expansive gardens. We hope you’ll join us as we continue to nurture these connections and create new ones.
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To make sure you can find what you need, we divide all our content into playlists by topic:
Are you a total newbie and want to get started working in the garden? Then you should definitely watch our Outdoor Gardening for Beginners playlist! We share all our outdoor gardening basics and gardening hacks that work. In this playlist, we cover all the outdoor plants, vegetables and flowers you can imagine, plus how to plant, harvest and care for them. All the info you need, in one handy spot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfq7JhzhIrrnGftreL7MJrh29hQKMzNjs
Houseplants! We love ‘em, and we have a ton of helpful videos about houseplants on this channel. Keeping indoor plants alive and thriving can be a challenge if you don’t have the optimal environment for them but don’t fret — we can help. We’ve dropped all our caring for indoor plants videos into this playlist. Our ‘How to keep houseplants healthy?’ playlist is built as a visual caring for houseplants guide, so you’ll never have to worry again about an unhappy indoor plant. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfq7JhzhIrrmdIgQ16K515KDeer8kiNVu
For urban gardeners and plant enthusiasts who don’t have a backyard garden at their disposal, here we share our best indoor gardening ideas. Designing a small garden space can be tricky, especially inside or on a balcony. We hope this playlist with our best indoor gardening hacks will help you figure out what could work nicely for you and your personal garden situation, as it’s full of gardening ideas for small home spaces. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfq7JhzhIrrnywVjiJVLRhKmUsRmLIqGm
More and more people are choosing to grow their own vegetables. And vegetable gardening is reappearing trend which takes all different shapes and sizes — from fields full of crops to growing food in an apartment! How to grow your own vegetables at home is a question we’ve heard a lot. Taking things deeper, though, in this playlist, we look into tons of different types of vegetables, plus how to get rid of garden pests without chemicals. And when it’s (finally!) harvest time and you’re looking for some ideas about what to do with the fruits of your labour, this is the playlist is for you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfq7JhzhIrrmnwpqqBqgzOv6FKPGBLa1d
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