The Healing Power of Gardens
This article focuses a lot on large, well curated gardens, but I&#x27;m an engineer who found a lot of solace and safety in managing my own garden. (As someone who has faced burnout and anxiety from work before.)<p>There&#x27;s something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain. It&#x27;s an exercise in organization and planning that scales from &quot;throw seeds at dirt&quot; to &quot;these plants will attract bees near these other plants, these plants will repel insects. These will bloom early, these bloom late&quot;.<p>You can grow flowers, you can grow vegetables which you can turn into cooked, canned, or pickled food.<p>There&#x27;s something about putting food on a plate that came from your yard, from your care. There&#x27;s something about sitting in a green (or red, or blue, or yellow, etc.) space that you made.<p>I&#x27;m a sucker for games like Minecraft, Factorio, etc. Raising a garden is like a slow motion version of those things. It&#x27;s a fusion of creative and scientific&#x2F;engineering brains. It&#x27;s great.