Gardening Serenity

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Being virtuous to nature is certainly beneficial. In other words, living with plants is to cultivate a piece of land and transform it into a magical colorful personal habitat either with herbs, fruits, vegetables, or flowers. There are several reasons that make people fall for gardening. A garden could be a place to tranquilize, idle and embrace time in joyfulness with nature for its amazing allure. In the garden, people tend to drop their thoughts around. According to Horace Walpole, all gardening is a landscape painting. Mother nature has the box of crayons!

Gardening has the efficacy to offer good quality of life. From a health point of view, gardening can help as a form of physical exercise. People who spend time in the garden may enjoy aerobic exercise at the same time. Weeding, pruning, trimming, plucking, watering, clearing, moving or shifting pots will work the body muscles for strength and flexibility.

By growing your own organic foods, you can help decrease the amount of global pesticides used as well as supporting the environment. Not only that, but buying organic from the groceries store can be costly. Organic home gardening can be an effective way to enjoy a bunch of healthy vegetables and herbs without breaking the bank. Just start small and extend bigger when everything is perfectly hit to grow. Organic vegetables and herbs are highly beneficial for health. Organic produce has less exposure to pesticides and have great quality of nutrients and other minerals including vitamins, antioxidants and more.

Gardening doesn’t need to be something you do alone. Group gardening provides mood boosting benefits. In fact it can be done among the young learners in school. It gives them an opportunity to learn beyond the classroom and their learning interest will be cultivated. Students have a deeper understanding of the life cycle, basic needs and stimulating social interaction. Nowadays, our community includes may children who prefer to stay inside with their gadgets. They choose LED light rather than sunlight. Gardening is an idle way for Vitamin D exposure to increase the calcium level for healthy strong bones and a good immunity system, whilst helping to grow our most important source of oxygen; but of course, ensure you are always sun smart!

Gardening is not only a great activity to help with physical and mental health, but can also have a positive impact on family relationships. In a global society that’s working at least nine-to-five, people are quotidian and lethargic, and many people struggle with work-life balance. For this reason, harnessing a small space in the backyard or on a balcony could be the blissful routine with the loved ones to help zone out of the frantic pace many of us find ourselves in. Parents could encourage their children in gardening with alacrity. Kids will be more jubilant and stimulating to get squalid, especially the young ones. Gardening provides an experiential learning. They may learn about the new species of plants, responsibility and fundamentals of life. Other than accelerating their cognitive development, relationships with the parents, family and friends can grow just like the plants they nurture.

As a matter of fact in handling financial issues, gardening could be part of the solution. People may ask if gardening is profitable and has the possibility to make money. Gardening can be the source of income but requires lots of time and energy. Think about the garden money-making ideas that require only personal gardening experience. For instance, growing microgreen and herbs for selling to vegetarians restaurants and markets (within the commercial restrictions and health & safety requirements of your local area). Flowers that are vibrantly blooming can be sold to the florist shops. If you are a professional gardener, you may offer services as a gardening consultant and write an article to fill in the column in the gardening magazine or blog.

It’s apparent that through the above benefits, home gardening is a holistic activity that I highly recommend. This practical life skill increases the capacity in self sufficiency, healthy living, networking, improving quality of life and dynamic economy. █

Noor Azamima Mohd Amin

SUZI JAMIL SUZI JAMIL

Suzi Jamil is the Owner and Director SUZI JAMIL of Think Inc., an intellectual-focused touring company based in Australia. From the Western suburbs of Sydney herself, Suzi has made it her mission to bring the world’s greatest minds to the country she calls home, in an effort to spread knowledge and enlightenment on topics of science, politics, race, religion and social equality. Among her guests are the likes of Sam Harris, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr Jane Goodall, Brian Greene and Richard Dawkins, to name but a few. Suzi is a producer of the film ‘Islam and The Future of Tolerance’, starring Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz, released in December 2018.

With Think Inc and the inspirational events and conversations that come from them, Suzi hopes to see a shift in global consciousness, allowing rational debate between an informed population on the issues that require the focus of our best and brightest.