Growing New Roots: How Gardening Helps Rebuild Life After Addiction
As a means of aftercare in addiction recovery, gardening can provide a great way to sustain recovery and improve mental health.
Goldenrod or Ragweed: Which One Causes Fall Allergies?
Goldenrod gets a bad rap in the fall for causing allergies. The actual culprit is ragweed, whose pollen can travel hundreds of miles.
The Benefits of Gardening as Exercise
Gardening is considered a moderate form of physical activity that benefits your body and mind. It burns just as many calories as working out in the gym.
Can Gardening Save Your Life?
A study shows that gardening can reduce depression, anxiety, and stress, elevate mood, regulate BMI, and improve quality of life and cognitive function.
Rubber Tire Mulch: Is it Safe for Your Garden?
Rubber tire mulch is a popular choice for gardeners and landscapers. But is it safe for plants and soil, and most importantly, safe for you?
The Benefits of Gardening Therapy in Addiction Recovery
When someone is recovering from an addiction to alcohol or drugs, there are several therapies that are helpful during the recovery process. One of them is gardening therapy – also known as horticultural therapy – and it offers a variety of benefits.
Aloe Vera: Growing, Propagation, Medicinal Uses
Aloe Vera, a popular cactus-like succulent, is one of the most useful medicinal plants and is very easy to grow.
How To Protect Your Back, Neck, and Knees When Gardening
Tips on how gardeners can protect their bodies and backs from injury when stretching and bending for long periods early in the season in their garden.
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Fruits & Vegetables: How many can you grow in your garden?
The Environmental Working Group has released this year’s list of the Dirty Dozen, the 12 fruits or vegetables commonly available in grocery stores which carry the most pesticide residue.
Wendell Berry Interview With Bill Moyers
Wendell Berry recently sat down for an interview with Bill Moyers. They spoke about his activism, his poetry, and the environmental crisis facing our nation.
