Gardening And Mental Health (Gardening Makes Us Happy?)

Gardening And Mental Health (Gardening Makes Us Happy?) A supporter on Patreon asked me about homesteading, gardening and mental health. Today I talk about how I use coping strategies and gardening to improve my mental health and mental wellbeing. Links to research quoted below. Click SHOW MORE for more details, resources and info.

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Links to information raised in this video.

Antidepressant Microbes In Soil - How Dirt Makes You Happy https://bit.ly/2kpXlSF

Geting Dirty May Lift Your Mood https://bit.ly/2Hot6GD

Also see - Lowry CA, Hollis JH, de Vries A, Pan B, Rosa Brunet L, Hunt JRF, Paton JFR, van Kampen E, Knight DM, Evans AK, Rook GAW, Lightman SL. Identification of an immune-responsive mesolimbocortical serotonergic system: potential role in regulation of emotional behavior. Neuroscience 146: 756-772, 2007.

A Dose-Response Curve Describing the Relationship Between Urban Tree Cover Density and Self-Reported Stress Recovery https://bit.ly/2EWnZfh

The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing): evidence from field experiments in 24 forests across Japan https://bit.ly/2kztrMd

I Can Make You Happy by Paul McKenna. One of the exercises in this book is to elevate your eye levels to feel more confident and happy about a stressful situation. (I'm still searching for a more scientific study of this).

About Us.
I share our organic homestead, called Byther Farm, with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
There is a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
I'm currently exploring permaculture farming as a way of life.
We keep hybrid chickens and also have breeding flocks of Jersey Giants and Australorp chickens and Aylesbury ducks.

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