By spending just 30 minutes a day connecting with nature you can achieve many things, including boosting your health and vitality.
In the garden you can grow food packed with nutrients, connect with nature and improve your emotional and physical well-being.
These are some of my favourite things to do…maybe create a list of your own and share with others !!
Here’s a few inspiring ideas to get you out into the garden and enjoy nature…
- Propagate 20 new plants
- Grow Superfoods
- Pot up a plant for a friend…or two!
- De-stress your body & mind
- Sheet mulch a weedy garden
- Make plans for new gardens & what to grow
- Install a bird bath
- Create a new pathway
- Plant 30 seedlings
- Meditate…Aahhh
- Sow 4 different types of seeds - try Parsley, Kale, Celery or Cucumbers
- Plant medicinal herbs
- Strengthen & tone muscles
- Harvest a meal
- Smile !!!
- Connect with the Earth
- Re-pot indoor plants
- Grow flowers
- Watch birds
- Increase serotonin & improve dopamine function
- Plant 4 shrubs
- Burn Calories/Kilojoules
- Reduce stress hormone, cortisol
- Plant a tree…or two!
- Create a secret garden
- Plan a holiday
- Sing !!
- Create a compost pile
- Apply fertilisers
- Cut a bouquet of flowers
- Feed worms
- Eat lunch
- Read a book
- Play a game
- Enjoy a pot of herbal tea
- Hang out with family & friends
- Harvest fruit
- Tidy the shed
- Create a vertical garden
- Cut down a bunch of bananas
- Mulch gardens
- Paint some pots bright colours
- Make a succulent garden
- Relax with a magazine
- Have a nap…
If you know someone who may be inspired by these ideas please consider sharing the love, through the buttons below, with friends or family who also love to grow…or who would love to grow!
Also download my FREE eBook ‘Get Your Garden Growing’ with simple steps to sow seeds and plant seedlings in your garden!
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Enjoy !!
Cath
© cath manuel 21 february 2014
