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🌱 The Ultimate Workout in Your Backyard: How Gardening Doubles as Exercise and Boosts Your Health 🌱

Discover why gardening is more than a hobby — it’s a powerful, enjoyable way to stay fit and healthy right at home.

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Kathleen Barnes
June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025

A Message from Kathleen:

Dear Friends,

How is your garden growing? That can be a literal as well as a rhetorical question. It seems like everyone I know, myself included, is undergoing some serious challenges to their own health or that of a loved one. I’m fine, but there are some serious health challenges for a loved one.

So, I get out in the garden, put my hands in the soil and find some peace. And it’s great exercise!

I’d love to see some photos of your gardens.

Happy Summer, be well, be healthy!

Kathleen

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Recent studies have documented what garden enthusiasts have known all along. Gardening is great exercise! Get the details here >>>

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