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Beat the Covid-19 Summertime Blues: Grow a Garden
Our favorite summer pastimes won’t be happening this year: Why not learn to grow your own food? It’s a time-tested method for outdoor stress relief.
Covid-19 restrictions are lifting, gradually, around the country and the world. But that doesn’t mean the summer of 2020 is likely to look like last summer. Or any other summer.
Concerts seem to be on hiatus. Families can still go to Disney-world; they’ll just have to sign an expanded liability waiver before they can pass through the park gates.
Public pools and other public places aren’t looking good, at least not in the short-term. Chlorine probably kills the virus, but everyone sharing a locker room is problematic.
Events determined “super-spreaders”- identified through analyzing the current data about Covid-19 rates of infection- will be shelved in the foreseeable future.
While Americans live in this limbo of the stay at home orders lifted, but other guidelines about activities in place, this is a great time to try on a new hobby.
Gardening, long the territory of elite suburbanites and time-rich retirees is becoming cool again. The internet is filling with slick gardening layouts and even slicker influencers suddenly schticking it on social media.