Today John notified me of a wonderful item that was on BBC Radio 4 yesterday. It is about, broadly speaking, gardening. The 12 minute program looked at the question: "Why are so many people drawn to gardening?"
There were several threads covered but I will expand on one, only, here. It related to the fact that in the field of neuroscience researchers noticed something, namely, "Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy".
I have always responded to people who ask "Are you a (keen) gardener?" I always reply "Well, I do a lot of it because I just love being out in the garden puddling about, getting my hands dirty!" Yes, I sit out in it from time to time, and I certainly cut flowers for the house, but this article (reference below) had me nodding my head in agreement as I listened the iPlayer podcast over a cup of coffee. (Funnily enough, my 85 year old neighbour, from a farming background is exactly the same; that is why we spend a lot of time together!)
Tthe BBC Radio 4 programme is on iPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nq1fb
For people not in the UK I found this article on the internet which relates to the topic in the first half of the programme:
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm
Maybe all those microbes help gardeners come to terms with gardening failures .... like my strawberry crop this wet summer! Nothing that a good bottle of vino couldn't sort!
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