{"id":111199,"date":"2023-07-26T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=111199"},"modified":"2024-07-04T06:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T10:07:28","slug":"episode-58-barbara-lawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-58-barbara-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 58: Barbara Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetpdz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110878\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/vN5cAUh3-AD_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/vN5cAUh3-AD_banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/vN5cAUh3-AD_banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/vN5cAUh3-AD_banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111200\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/BL-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good Barbara Lawson podcast\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/BL-banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/qsYHOncB-BL-banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/BL-banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/27565221\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good episode that\u2019s just a little bit different than usual, Barbara Lawson talks about gardening\u2019s place in moving through grief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear about how Barbara\u2019s business, Meet Me in the Dirt, eventually grew out of her own grief over her mother\u2019s death and the healing power of her own garden. She talks about healing gardens and shares a really special story about the tropical milkweed that brought home this concept to her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn about the progression of Meet Me in the Dirt, from a group of Facebook followers to a mobile garden Barbara built in a bus to the current iteration of a wellness retreat space full of plants. This plant-filled wellness retreat is in a storefront in a mall, of all places, and serves as a healing space for Barbara\u2019s clients\u2014and it\u2019s not the final iteration of Meet Me in the Dirt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to the end and get yourself to a quiet space for Barbara to lead you through a meditation-like experience that she might use in her gardening sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetmeinthedirt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Me in the Dirt website<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[11047],"class_list":["post-111199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-hobby-farms-presents-growing-good"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 58: Barbara Lawson - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Episode 58 of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good with Barbara Lawson! 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