How Gardening Helps In Humans Life : 7- Benefits & Scopes

The gardening keyword is known and understood by many peoples. Gardening started long years back and today it still plays a major role in human life. Gardening is something that can be done easily by anyone. You just need to have some interest in nature and plantations. You can start gardening anywhere you stay. It doesn't require any specific areas, it just wants how you can convert a vacant place into a gardening place. Gardening is an art that requires lots of patience and practice like other hobbies eg. arts, music, dance, etc. 

All skills need some internal interest and passion to be in the same process for a long period of time. Gardening in today's time plays a major role in human life, here we will look into the benefits of gardening, how you can start gardening, a career in gardening, and how you can earn by doing gardening. 

Let us start with the benefits of gardening in Human Life.

Benefits of Gardening 

1. Keeps You Connected With Nature

Nature is a place where you have evolved. The body is made of soil, air, and water. These three elements will make you live longer. As a part of nature, you must touch and feel nature with all your senses. The senses are a powerful carrier in human life. Every day touching soil, pouring water into plants, getting fresh air, and getting proper sunlight keeps your soul happier. The happier your soul, you will start your morning. There will be no stress in your body, and you will be more active throughout the day. You need to stay connected with nature to live a long life.

2. You Will Get Sunlight source of Vitamin-D

The energy from the sun is really important for all living beings, whether it is plants, animals, or human beings. Sunlight helps in various ways in all living things. In a human being's life, it plays a very important role. Getting into sunlight benefits you in getting good sleep, strong bones, reducing stress, helps you to develop your immune system which is very important nowadays to fight with Covid-19, it will improve your mood to fight with depression which is also a major problem in the year 2020 and in coming years.

3. Good Connection With Family

Waking up in the early morning and getting engaged with your plants will make changes in you. The family members will get involved with you in gardening, after seeing your efforts and your passion. Doing gardening together helps you to make a good connection with your family. You will start getting into creative ideas by sharing with your family about gardeing. Good Bonding with your family members can make you feel more confident about what you love to do.

4. Healthy Living

Getting into gardening makes you more active. As you know gardening is a very active job, this needs your body to move from here and there. Shifting plants/pots, pouring water, mixing soil, and a lot more work make your cardio done, you easily burn your daily calories without going into a workout session. Gardening helps to make your day active. Burning calories keeps you away from any kind of health disease.

5. You Can Have Your Own Organic Food

Growing vegetables and fruits at home are really good, you must have been aware of hybrid vegetables and food coming in vegetable markets, which is really not good for health. Having your own grown food at home makes you more satisfied and happier than buying it from the market. The taste you will get from your own grown food is really different and you will love it.

6. Learning To Be Responsible 

Accept plants as your child or younger brother/sister, and accept that you have been assigned the task to take care of these plants by God. This will develop more focus on plants and makes you believe that you will make plants live for a long time. Taking responsibility for plants makes you will live a much more organized and focused life.

7. You Will Become Creative 

Gardening makes you more creative there is no doubt. Moving plants here and there, you do the planning, designing, and organizing of different types of plants as per their sunlight and air needs. You gain knowledge of which plants need how much sunlight and which need no lights. After getting much knowledge about plants you will start decorating the garden as per your creativity and you start loving it. The creative mind gets more curious and you start doing some experiments developing new plants. The creativity will make you love your plants for a long period of time.

Scope In Gardening

If we talk about the scope or a career in gardening, then the list is long. Gardening nowadays is really effective in human life. Many successful people on earth love to do gardening and live their life as Horticulturists or Gardeners and you can be the next Horticulturist or Gardener. Many websites on google will tell you how you can have a degree and how you can have jobs in different greenery sectors. Here, I am not going to repeat all those options, here I will try to tell you something you might be aware of or might not. Many options are available at present where you can fit yourself, the only requirement for gardening is your passion. 

List of Scopes 

1. Gardner 

This profession is almost known by many, in Hindi, we call them "Mali". There are many people outside who think doing this job is very low level. But this profession is in high demand in the commercial and residential sectors. You can develop your skills in gardening and build your own portfolio to show people. Visit homes and commercial places just ask them if they need any gardener service, there might be many no answers but you need to keep trying, soon you will get a new client. You can charge on an hourly or monthly basis. You need to do some research on how already existing gardeners giving services in your area. The service charges may vary from place to place. You can have a beautiful career.

2. Consultant

You can become a professional consultant in this field, and for that, you need to get certified in the field of Horticulture. There are many institutes that offer short-term courses where you can join. Getting into an institute helps you develop a good network with people. Later after completing your course, you can start your own business or you can join any company to learn more in this field. I would suggest getting started your own business will keep you more motivated and it will develop your personality. To start your own business, you must have a belief in yourself.

You can search on google for "Horticulture courses in India", there you will be able to understand more about it.

3. Start Your Nursery 

If you have developed a passion for gardening and have deep knowledge about plants, then you can set up your own nursery. Many greenery lovers love to grow plants in their homes, offices, hotels, hospitals, etc.

We all know every human likes greenery. There are so many nurseries in each city in India or wherever you live.No doubt there will be very big-big nurseries available near you, just get involved with them to make a network. Understand the nursery business model, and how and where you can start. There are many youtube channels currently running, they have started their own Nursery at home only, go to their channels and observe how they have started.

Starting your own work will really make you happy and you will start feeling lucky about, you got a chance to take care of the environment.

4. Start Your YouTube Channel

There are many youtube channels on gardening and plants, they all share their knowledge on gardening, plants, techniques, etc, and earn through YouTube.

Likewise, you can start your own channel. You must be aware of how you can earn through YouTube, in case you don't know, just google it, How to earn through YouTube.There are various topics you can share with your wide range of audiences around the world. This is really a great opportunity.

Conclusion 

At last, I would like to conclude that, this gardening really needs passion. You must have an interest in gardening and plants. There are various sectors in greenery in which you can make a career. It's a really fast-growing sector.

All The Very Best for a Great Career in Gardening :)