The pandemic’s gardening boom shows how gardens can cultivate public health

Photo caption: A man tends to his plot at a community garden in Santa Monica, Calif., in April 2020. Photo credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Article by Alessandro Ossola. The Conversation – April 21, 2022.

As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, reports emerged of a global gardening boom, with plants, flowers, vegetables and herbs sprouting in backyards and on balconies around the world. The data backs up the narrative: An analysis of Google Trends and infection statistics found that during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, country-by-country interest in gardening, from Italy to India, tended to peak just as infections peaked. […]

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