The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast 1KHO 575: My Life Changed When I Started Growing My Own Food | Bailey Van Tassel, Kitchen Garden Living
Sep 17, 2025
Join Bailey Van Tassel, author of Kitchen Garden Living and founder of the Kitchen Garden Society, as she shares her inspiring journey from indifference to a love for gardening. Discover how growing food transformed her perspective on success and family life. Bailey discusses practical gardening tips, the joy of co-creating with nature, and the deep connections formed through small-scale gardening adventures. She emphasizes the beauty in life's messiness and offers soul-nourishing ideas that can help you embrace a slower, more intentional lifestyle.
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City Dream Turned Back To Soil
- Bailey left her rural roots to chase city dreams before returning to the life she valued.
- Having her first son triggered a desire to create a nature-rich childhood and led her back to gardening.
Nature Is Biologically Soothing
- Bailey explains humans are biologically wired to benefit from contact with soil and green space.
- Visual green exposure and touching soil release serotonin and improve focus and healing.
Planting Built New Confidence
- Bailey describes coaching a woman in her fifties through her first garden; planting transformed the woman's confidence.
- Seeing seedlings sprout made the woman giddy and turned gardening into a shared family activity.
