Activif Team

Anyone who knows me just a little bit will know that I spend most of my time traipsing around my garden, digging here, planting there, pruning this, and sprucing up that. My garden is my “happy place”, and all of my plants are regarded as my children, but how did I get here? Was gardening […]

If you don’t have a garden yet, you are probably wondering what the best option is: indoor or outdoor garden. It’s understandable that you might toy with both ideas as both styles come with perks and challenges that are unique to each of them. The only way to decide is to understand what the differences

Ah, gardening. It’s a delight to me in every sense of the word. There are days where I find myself chained to my desk, but daydreaming about working among the buzzing bees, sniffing the fresh petals of new blooms, crunching into a just-ripened green bean, and feeling the soft, enriched earth between my fingers. Gardening

What does it mean to have a “sense of community”? According to McMillan & Chavis, the definition of the term is:  “a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together”.

I do not need much convincing that plants have a place in the home, especially my bedroom. In fact, a variety of my favorite plants share my bedroom space with me already, and that is not just because they make the room look aesthetically pleasing (which they do, by the way). I can think of

When someone asked me what the drawbacks or disadvantages of having indoor plants were, I did not quite know what to say. I had never given much thought to the downside of sharing my indoor space with plants because they add so much value to my life. But once I started thinking about it, I realized that