Dopamine Gardening [electronic resource] : 52 Joyful Outdoor Projects for Every Season and Any Space
Chapman, Amy2026
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A fresh, fun take on joyful gardening, inspiring beginners with achievable bitesize projects for every week of the year.Dopamine Gardening is an inspiring guide to bringing joy into your garden in simple, achievable and imaginative ways. It contains 52 unique projects which anyone - whether a seasoned gardener looking for new ideas or a budding gardener looking for realistic recommendations - can complete and enjoy in their garden or outdoor space.The overarching theme of the book is joy. There is a lot of evidence that gardening is good for our wellbeing. Getting your hands in the soil has been proven to trigger the release of dopamine, and being able to feed yourself with fresh and delicious ingredients from your own garden is incredibly rewarding.Arranged into seasons (so you could roughly do one per weekend of the year if you liked), the projects are low-cost, nature-friendly and sustainable:Spring• Grow chamomile from a teabag - grow your own calming chamomile plants without buying seeds• Make a barefoot pathway - make a dedicated area to walk outside barefoot to ground yourself and aid your microbiomeSummer• Make lavender sleep pouches - use homegrown lavender to make relaxing sleep pouches• Make your own lip balm - how to make lip balm with homegrown ingredientsAutumn• Make a hedgehog hibernation nest - connect to nature and give a home to wildlife by making a nest for your local hedgehogs• Make an autumn wreath - celebrate the seasons by making an autumn wreath out of foraged materials
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[Place of publication not identified] : Pavilion Books, 2026
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9780008795375
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English
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4324872