Mind Body Garden

Social Media has been on the chopping block since day 1 - they say it is changing people's behaviors, it is designed to make us addicted, or it's threatening democracy. But I think we lazily blame the platform when it all goes back to those creating & reacting to inputs into the system - simply put, people are problem, not social media. We have an extreme need to demonize the medium because we don't want to believe that the poison spewing out on Facebook & Twitter is a product of our sick minds, but it's because of how software engineers designed the algorithm. In this episode I'm not on as much of a high horse as the preceding sentences, but go into reasons I took a break from social and what was going on in my mind, not what's wrong with the platform. How do you express your creativity? And what holds you back from being 100% You?

I love the weekends for relaxation, but it's even more satisfying after doing some much needed housework & reorganization of the furniture 🛋️ This also gave me a few ideas for how to reorganize my content and potentially create something to provide more value than the podcast - a Morning Show. In this podcast I talk about my ideas for the show, how I can execute on it, and some directions for new content segments. If there's anything you want to hear/see on the show, let me know! 📣

In today's episode I take a slightly different route than the usual gardening questions, tips, or updates and wanted to dive into something I've been sitting on for a while - Mind, Body, Garden. That is my mantra for life and it's all reliant on Happiness - doing things that truly make you happy & setting yourself up for a happy life by caring for those most basic principles of Mind, Body, Garden. I love growing plants, but my true passion is growing Happiness, and my mission is to sow those seeds as far and wide as I can. It's time to cultivate Health & Happiness in the Garden of Life! 🧠🏋️👨‍🌾

Today I talk about our nice relaxing weekend and some of the projects we tackled including our attempt to better train our dogs. We always chalk their behavior up to being rescues but then we decided we needed to make a change so we started watching Dog Whisperer and we're basically pro dog psychologists 🤷‍♂️🐶🐶🤷‍♀️ I also talk about the insane amount of miles I've been biking in my quest to lose weight and just improve my overall health. Kyla and I also started making a change in our eating habits, trying to completely cut out the junk & I'm super excited where our journey to Self-improvement will take us! 📈

It's a short week but that doesn't mean I'm going to lose my motivation to keep knocking projects off my list! Today's episode goes into 5 goals I have for the week beginning with reorganizing and revamping the Plant Lab Studio 🌱💡tidying up the lawn & landscaping 🚜 and stepping up my eBay game 💸 what do you want to accomplish this week?

Today I decided to throw some "gains" into the podcast. We start off with a gardening question and then go into a few questions centered around natural bodybuilding & weight lifting, Pre-workout & supplementation, and a few tips to reduce your chance of injury when lifting 🏋️ I finish off the episode getting a little deep talking about how life is like a Flower garden 🌼🌹🏵️

I start this episode off by talking about a project I did today - taking cuttings of landscaping plants like boxwoods, Japanese maples, and hydrangeas. If I did it right, we'll have a ton of plants when spring rolls around! The main feature of this episode is talking about something I don't talk much a about - my business Gardening 4 Gains. It has been something that is slowly growing as I learn the ins & outs of farming & growing plants, but something I want to continue to diversify the income of so that I can eventually turn a side hustle into a living breathing thing of its own. I talk about my CSA and dive into 4 other ideas for expanding my business & funding the expansion of land 👨‍🌾🚜 Let me know your thoughts or if you have any ideas, gardening questions or anything else I can help with 😁

Today's Garden Show dives into 5 more questions about gardening and covers a wide range of topics. First I talk about what veggies you can grow that store well over a long winter & how you can garden and grow fruits & vegetables year round in zone 5 or 6 🍎🍅🌶️🥕🥬I also talk about growing plants in pots and what happens if you keep a plant in a pot for a long time. And of course I had to talk about the magic of Root Pouches and fabric pots & how they're the best pots out there! I wrap things up with talking about gardening with allergies and some tips to reduce your suffering 🤧

Starting a garden can seem daunting, there's so much you need to know and so much to learn. In this episode I break down the basics for starting a garden and how it all depends on executing the foundations exceptionally well. I also talk about the benefits of eggshells in the garden and how they can help prevent tomatoes from cracking or developing blossom end rot (the black spots on the bottom of tomatoes, caused by a calcium deficiency) 🐣. Not only is calcium important, but so are things like silica, copper & other micronutrients and microbes that help make them available for uptake by the plants. I wrap this episode up talking about overseeding your lawn for winter - not something I'm an expert on, but I'm getting more interested in lawncare so I'll be diving into more on that as I learn 🤓

We're keeping the Gardening Show running today with 5 more questions from Quora 🤔❓ Today we talk about poisonous plants, using gardening & housework as a means to getting fit, the economics and ROI of gardening, and Eating compost!? 🤐 (P.s. sorry Mom, I'll talk about bulbs and poinsettias tomorrow 😁)