Garden Therapy

Dirt sounds ordinary until you look at what it does to the human nervous system. We sit down with nurse and gardener Nurse Taneesha Roberts to unpack why gardening keeps showing up as a legit mental health tool, not as a trendy wellness slogan but as a repeatable practice you can actually do after a hard day. We talk stress hormones and cortisol, the “get your hands in soil” idea, and the emerging science around Microbacterium vaccae, serotonin, and the gut brain connection. From there we zo...