The Urban Dweller and Our Modern Lifestyles
The modern lifestyle – fast paced, stress-packed, and filled with plenty of distractions. Endless new trends to keep up with. We work to live and live to work. And this cycle continues…
Till a point where we hit a wall. What am I really doing? What is the meaning behind my lifestyle choices?
How often do we find ourselves being present in the moment? Do we fully take time to absorb and appreciate the little things that happen in life?
Planting as a Lifestyle Choice
Seeking to reconnect with our inner selves, many lifestyle choices have emerged throughout the years: Eating clean, Meditation, or Yoga.
Keeping plants at home and at work is one of those lifestyle choices. It has been practiced for thousands of years. Even governments are beginning to recognise its importance in the recent years, preserving more green spaces in cities.
Nurturing plants indoors are well known and well documented to bring about many physical and mental wellbeing benefits. Scientifically, to name a few:
- Increased Productivity
- Relieved Stress Levels
- Increased Pain Tolerance
Growing edibles is an extension of growing plants. Apart from just co-living with your plants, you’ll be engaging in activities with them: from sowing, to transplanting and to harvesting.
These activities form the basis of a modern craft. Through its dedicated pursuit, you’ll find yourself living in the present, with a renewed appreciation for life’s natural wonders.
A Modern Grower’s Philosophy
From our experience with growing food both commercially and for households, we gathered some takeaways through nurturing our craft in growing food:
- Nurture New Life: Starting seeds from scratch reminds you of the importance and joy of nurturing new life, one seed at a time.
- Embrace Failures: Sometimes your crops die for reasons that could be outside of your control. Through that experience, you get to pick yourself up and try again. This time, in a different way.
- Taking responsibility: Once you nurture a new life, you can’t just neglect it. Watering, maintenance and pruning, these are all activities you’ll need to be committed to go through. This is akin to living life, where we can’t neglect our own personal growth and development.
- Progress, one step at a time: By learning through past experience, accomplished data and established modern methods, you can make progress in your craft one plant at a time.
Finding Your Balance
What’s interesting is that everyone will develop their own reflections through the craft of growing food. Done for the purpose of reconnecting ourselves, outside of crushing expectations of society, the path to finding our way might not be that far away.
