How Gardening Is Good for Your Microbes, Muscles, and Mood

How Gardening Is Good for Your Microbes, Muscles, and Mood
Gardening is great physical exercise with several unexpected benefits, including reduced anxiety and an improved microbiome.PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/Shutterstock
Zrinka Peters
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There are few activities more nourishing for both body and soul than planting and tending a garden.

Gardeners have long known that the physical process of working with soil, water, and sunlight to coax a tiny seed through the miracle of growth and maturity has effects that go well beyond the pleasure of eating a strawberry or smelling a rose. A growing body of research shows that gardening is good for our physical and mental health.

Zrinka Peters
Zrinka Peters
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Zrinka Peters is a freelance writer focusing on health, wellness, and education. She has a bachelor's degree in English literature from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and has been published in a wide variety of print and online publications including Health Digest, Parent.com, Today's Catholic Teacher, and Education.com.
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