Seed Sharing
Apr. 2nd, 2025 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithGrowing and sharing seeds can boost mental health
Storing and sharing seeds has clear environmental benefits. But new findings suggest they can bring about wellbeing wins too.
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Author Kathy Slack, whose new memoir Rough Patch explores how growing vegetables helped her recover from burnout and depression, was unsurprised by the connection. “Sowing a seed is an act of hope,” she says.“Not to be overly dramatic about it, but when you’re wondering whether it’s worth even bothering to stick around any more, planting a seed is like a promise to your future self.”
Projects like a community garden where people can just come in and grow things, a seed library, a seed / plant swap, etc. can have great benefits for individual and community wellbeing.
Storing and sharing seeds has clear environmental benefits. But new findings suggest they can bring about wellbeing wins too.
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Author Kathy Slack, whose new memoir Rough Patch explores how growing vegetables helped her recover from burnout and depression, was unsurprised by the connection. “Sowing a seed is an act of hope,” she says.“Not to be overly dramatic about it, but when you’re wondering whether it’s worth even bothering to stick around any more, planting a seed is like a promise to your future self.”
Projects like a community garden where people can just come in and grow things, a seed library, a seed / plant swap, etc. can have great benefits for individual and community wellbeing.
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Date: 2025-04-02 08:01 pm (UTC)This is just a small corner of it
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Date: 2025-04-02 08:20 pm (UTC)That is awesome. We discovered the Charleston Food Forest in fall and I've already been back to forage it. It's a place where anyone can go to putter around, pull weeds, pick and eat whatever's ripe. The French sorrel and garlic chives are already big enough to eat. :D
>> This is just a small corner of it <<
Wow, that is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
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Date: 2025-04-03 12:38 am (UTC)Thoughts
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