The chore list is full in the final weeks of summer. There are onions to pull, potatoes to dig, herbs to dry. As day length recedes, the hours are not sufficient to attend to all that needs doing. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
At this point in the growing season the garden is a little worse for the wear in its appearance, but there the harvest, like these sunflowers, is still going strong. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The chore list is full in the final weeks of summer. There are potatoes to dig and as day length recedes, the hours are not sufficient to attend to all that needs doing. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The chore list is full in the final weeks of summer. There are onions to pull, potatoes to dig, herbs to dry. As day length recedes, the hours are not sufficient to attend to all that needs doing. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
At this point in the growing season the garden is a little worse for the wear in its appearance, but there the harvest, like these sunflowers, is still going strong. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The chore list is full in the final weeks of summer. There are potatoes to dig and as day length recedes, the hours are not sufficient to attend to all that needs doing. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Rebecca Mead, in a recent New Yorker article, writes of England and its national affection for gardening. Eight out of 10 people in Britain live in a home with a private garden, which drives a horticulture industry worth $30 billion to the U.K. economy. Since the pandemic-induced lockdown in Britain, as is the case in the U.S., interest in home food production has spiked even higher.
But “nature and nurture” is really about the restorative power of gardening. Mead writes that British primary-care doctors increasingly give patients “a social prescription” to do something like volunteer at a community garden, believing that such work sometimes can be as effective as therapy or anti-depressants.
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