Author Archives: The Holistic Gardener

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About The Holistic Gardener

author of wellness books, columnist, keynote speaker.

Three reasons to boil a kettle in flu season

Posted on March 11, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

For clogged up nasal congestion, raspy breathing or a boost to under-the-weather mugginess, the best thing you can do is boil a kettle. I have three tricks here that you can use the boiling water for. a mustard foot bath … Continue reading →

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a no fooling blackberry and elderberry fool

Posted on March 11, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

A  blackberry and elderberry fool  is a tasty treat to tackle colds, flu and other seasonal viral infections.  You can run out and buy up all the immune boosting supplements and by the time they ‘kick in’ to your system … Continue reading →

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Simple homemade hand sanitizers for flu season.

Posted on March 10, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

What with a new corona virus and older seasonal viruses on the radar, there has been a run on alcohol-based hand sanitizers lately. The thing is those products are antibacterial in the main and while hand hygiene is essential to … Continue reading →

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How to treat a winter cough

Posted on October 30, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

We are in the sniffles and cough season, and sometimes if we have contacted a winter ailment, we can feel so deflated that even the garden loses its appeal to the option of a duvet day and plenty of hot … Continue reading →

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Cultivating neuroplasticity.

Posted on August 29, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

Leisure swimmers have different muscles to committed cyclists, gardening works muscles that typing wont. Just as muscles may be built by occupation, pastime or determination so too our brains are built upon by how they get worked – by experience, … Continue reading →

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disarming anxiety and stress

Posted on August 21, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

Stress and anxiety are complex issues and both are a spectrum – indeed, both of symptoms and intensity. The first thing to say is that stress and anxiety are natural human states, they are part of our evolved survival mechanisms … Continue reading →

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To plant mindfully

Posted on August 21, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

In the segment on sowing a seed mindfully I mentioned diligence, diligence is acting with integrity; it is bringing your dutiful and alert self into the process. We gardeners can become automatic on regular gardening tasks and not really be … Continue reading →

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sowing the seeds of mindfulness

Posted on August 20, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

Sowing seed is not an act of will, it is participation in the divine force of creation, it is participation with the force of life; to renew itself. In sowing seed you are present at the conception of a new … Continue reading →

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how to really deal with slugs and snail.

Posted on July 22, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

The mindful approach. To be a mindful gardener we may not like what the slugs and snails do but we need not hate or rage. In Theravada Buddhism it is taught that the antidote to anger is compassion and loving … Continue reading →

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A latitude for gratitude

Posted on July 2, 2019 by The Holistic Gardener

Gardening gifts myriad opportunities to be grateful; Grateful that the sun is shining, or that the wind has abated or that the rain is doing the watering today. Grateful that those seeds germinated, or that plant flowered or that bush … Continue reading →

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