Check out the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast

Hey! This is Summer Rayne Oakes, host of Bad Seeds. Our season is wrapped, but if you want even more plant content, I wanted to recommend another podcast that I love. 

Growing Joy with Plants explores the plant person connection, and teaches you how to care for plants successfully and cultivate joy in your life by doing so. Click over to Growing Joy with Plants and subscribe, and take a listen to this short trailer to get to know Maria better. You can listen on Apple, Spotify, and follow Maria on Instagram. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Summer rain Oaks, host of Bad Seeds.
Our season just wrapped up, and if you want even
more plant content, I wanted to recommend another podcast that
I love. If you like plants and feeling good, you're
going to love the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, hosted
by my longtime plant friend Maria Faiella. Growing Joy with

(00:21):
Plants explores the plant person connection and teaches you how
to care for plants successfully and cultivate joy in your
life by doing so. Maria and I go way back.
I was actually one of her first guests on her
podcast five years ago when it used to be called
Bloom and Grow Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
If you don't know Maria, she is a plant killer
turned happy plant lady with a contagious passion for houseplants, gardening,
and nature. She also wrote the self help book Growing Joy,
The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness Now. I love
that she asks questions for the least informed listener, and
she keeps it light, informative, and full of good vibes.

(01:02):
Growing Joy with Plants has episodes ranging from how to
stop killing succulents, to gardening how to tutorials, to understanding
the science of why plants make us happy. She even
has a mini series on how to grow mushrooms. No
matter what type of plant lover you are, there's an
episode for you. Click over to Growing Joy with Plants
and subscribe and take a listen to the short trailer

(01:24):
to get to know Maria better.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The answer to a happier and calmer life might be
simpler than you think house plants and gardening. Come learn
how plant care can be your best tool for self
care on the Growing Joy podcast, where we learn not
only to care for plants successfully, but how to simply
and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more calm
and joy in our lives. I'm Maria, your new best

(01:50):
plant friend, author of Growing Joy, the plant lover's Guide
to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, and epic
plant killer turned happy plant lady. I'm a self development
addict who realized that, after spending thousands on yoga retreats,
juice lenses, and self development, the most effective tool for
building a joyful relationship with myself and finding calm that

(02:11):
I thought was reserved for vacations on the beach was
in my simple and beautiful hobby of caring for houseplants
and growing tomatoes in my gardener. On the growing Joy podcast,
I host conversations about how to optimize your plant care
with topics like how to stop healing your succulents, how
to care for hoya, and how do grow lights really
even work. But in addition to that amazing plant care education,

(02:31):
on the growing Joy podcast, we take it to the
next level with conversations about wellness through the lens of
plants with topics like herbalism, nature therapy, forest bathing, and more.
No matter what type of plant parent you are or
what type of nature based therapy that you're into, I
bet we've got an episode for it. Come grossome joy
with us with weekly episodes. The plant care is self

(02:53):
care on crowing Joy the podcast