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Research strategy and participant group affiliations. Credit: Local Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2298675 What if one of the things known for helping and reducing stress and anxiety, becomes such a commitment, it leads to burn-out? It is widely believed that getting involved in community gardening projects is beneficial to health and…

Growing fruits and veggies isn’t a terribly difficult endeavor—humanity has been doing it successfully for thousands of years—but it does require a certain amount of know-how, a lot of dedication, and the right environment to turn seeds into edible plants. If you struggle with all of those things, the hydroponic Rise Garden makes growing plants almost idiot-proof, but unlike your countertop bread maker, it’s definitely not a completely autonomous solution.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter…

The category of climate fiction, or cli-fi, arose in this millennium, but several older works of fiction have tackled the subject of climate change and its effects. Prescient examples include JG Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962) and Ursula K Le Guin’s The New Atlantis (1975). Trees in the Surrealist Garden in Hamilton Gardens, New Zealand. (Shutterstock) 432pp; Granta Books (Granta Books) In their time, these works might have sounded far-fetched or futuristic, but contemporary cli-fi often feels…

Kevin Costner’s Massive Expenses From Last Year Have Been Revealed Amid His Divorce With Christine Baumgartner( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Kevin Costner and his family splurged nearly $12 million on expenses in the last year. ‘The Bodyguard’ actor’s private financial information for 2022 has been laid bare amid his split from estranged wife Christine Baumgartner, 49, who filed for divorce from the 68-year-old in May after 18 years of marriage. Kevin had previously argued in court documents obtained by Page Six he did…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in his latest creation ” Master Gardener.” Sigourney Weaver is a wealthy dowager with a stately name (Norma Haverhill), a large house and a dog she’s named porch dog. She also has a horticulturist (Joel Edgerton) in her employ who she occasionally calls on for extracurricular, indoor activities. There’s even a big charity auction coming up that she and the gardening staff are intensely focused on. But this being a Schrader film…

GARDEN TOOLS are rarely prized for their looks. But recently, elegant iterations of classic shed supplies are showing up in unexpected places. You can find hand-forged trowels at home-decor stores, Japanese digging knives sold alongside selvedge jeans, and carbon-steel floral scissors on Marie Kondo’s website. These new shears, shovels and sickles don’t just appeal for their lovely curves. Make just one cut with a tool of this class, and feel its keen blade pass through branches like…

Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She has written four novels and five collections of short stories, including Love Invents Us, Lucky Us and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You. Her memoir, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , is a searing account of her journey with her husband, Brian Ameche, to Dignitas in Switzerland to end his life after he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.Alongside the heartbreak, your book is mordantly funny. How did you locate the humour in what you were going…

Gardyn review: easy gardening for a high price MSRP $849.00 “The Gardyn takes everything I like about smart gardens and scales it up to include way more plants, but the app control is a bit finicky.” Pros Grows 30 plants at one time Fully automated watering and light exposure Little day-to-day maintenance Tons of plant options…

A study of 32 different women discovered that gardening improved their mental health. Credit: Tyler JonesA study finds that gardening can improve your mental health. Many long-time gardeners will tell you that the garden is their happy place. According to a new study, many people may benefit from working with plants, even if they’ve never gardened before.University of Florida researchers discovered that gardening activities reduced stress, anxiety, and sadness in healthy women who attended twice-weekly gardening lessons…

Are you an early riser? Invariably, Sunday’s a travel day – I do gigs on Saturdays. If I’m home, I lie in until the dogs make that noise you can’t ignore, then I stagger down, give them a carrot and let them out. If it’s sunny, I’ll start gardening in my pyjamas. We live in a 16th-century barn in Hertfordshire. There’s a cottage garden, a wildflower meadow, a garden with a tropical vibe… a lot of plants.What’s on the menu? If I fancy a cooked breakfast, I’ll have egg and bacon. If I don’t, it’s some bran and muesli thing…