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GardenFit Hosts : Madeline Hooper and Jeff Hughes
We all eff that horticulture can be great exercise . But , all that physical action can sometimes head to ache and pains . Join expert gardener Madeline Hooper and professional fitness flight simulator Jeff Hughes as they visit some of the most beautiful secret garden and farms in the U.S. While there , they gather garden breathing in and bakshish from the garden hosts , while trainer Jeff Hughes teaches technique to counteract the strong-arm price that gardening can have on the consistency . see how to not only worry for your garden , but also your soundbox , in this unexampled series on PBS .
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EP . 8 : THE STABLE VEGETARIAN
In this episode , Madeline and Jeff visit Karl Cook of Pomponio Ranch , in Rancho Santa Fe , California . Karl has transform the traditional landscape he inherited on his property to one filled with edibles — so many edibles , that his goal is to cook something different every day . Karl has focused on creating nutrient - rich soil and divvy up tip on how he has built up the soil in his garden .
Karl is a professional horse passenger and show jumper and is in salutary physical shape . He has figured out some fixes on his own to eliminate a intensity imbalance in his pelvic arch that was stimulate knee pain . Jeff helps him expand the exercises that he does to counterbalance the imbalance and get a more well - rounded result . Since Jeff does n’t have much to fix physically for Karl , he asks Karl to figure into the future and take a look at what he thinks a good plan for him would be .
EP . 7 : BAREFOOT AND FANCY barren AT 95
You ’ll sincerely savour Madeline & Jeff ’s visit with Peggy Walsh , an energetic 95 - year - old woman in Somerset County , NJ . Peggy ’s garden encircle her home and was created at the same time her home was built . She walks a stone path that runs through her garden every morning with a loving cup of umber , checking on her plants and nodding " good morning " to the statues . Peggy ’s garden is beautiful and her mind-set on life is even more so .
Although she still gets around wonderfully , Peggy from time to time has remainder issues and worry with — what she call — a otiose fundament . She recognizes some anxiety and tension issue that exacerbate her problems . Jeff teaches her how to lengthen and decompress her posture to battle the tensity and improve her posture which also helps with her equaliser . He also gives her some simple exercises to help retrain her " slothful " human foot .
EP . 6 : SAFFRON SPENDOR
This week , Madeline and Jeff take a stumble to Northern California and natter the large saffron farm in North America . Farm owners Melinda and Simon want a change of sprightliness and started the farm without any farming scope , learning as they go along . They ’ve add a food market garden and a blossom garden to create a ambrosia and pollen - racy surround for pollinator . In this episode they portion out how they conquered a landing field full of weeds , as well as how they keep from " feeding the gophers . "
With no heavy machinery on the farm , one can only conceive of the amount of manual labor that it takes to deal for the farm . Both Melinda and Simon are very tall , and their harvest work is done at basis level . With the amount of meter they spend bending over , their back were their main complaint . Jeff shows them how to use the proper " hinge " for stand from a dented spatial relation and take the strain off the blue back . He also shares with Madeline how to stretch her hip flexors — good for those who pass a mickle of time kneel or sitting ( in the garden or in the office ) .
EP . 5 : PROPAGATION ON THE PRAIRIE
Go with Madeline and Jeff to where the Rocky Mountains play the plains in Colorado , as they chat with Lauren Springer and take the air through her personal garden . Lauren is a dead on target plainswoman who propagate industrial plant , either by division or seed , and share tips on how to repot cactus . Her approach to garden conception is very insightful . “ I often just think when you put together works , ideate they ’re in black and white , and you ’re direct a calamitous and whitened picture . It takes the color off the tabular array , and it makes you see the forms and the textures more . Then the colors just become this special ice ointment at the ending . ”
Years of working with her hands has caused Lauren to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and other deal and articulatio radiocarpea painful sensation . Jeff shows her how to facilitate some of the pain in the neck by find oneself balance and strengthening the opposing muscles , as well as how to care with impuissance in her leg from an old harm .
EP . 4 : receive TO THE JUNGLE
Head south with Madeline and Jeff to Miami , where they inflict landscape painting designer Raymond Jungles ( yes , that ’s his name ! ) . Raymond is passionate about preserving nature and creating habitats for all living things , using local vegetation and fauna to bring a garden to life and put nature back into the city .
Raymond finds that he has lower back pain in the ass after a full day of gardening , and Jeff give him a core tone mundane ( that he calls his 5 - instant Ab ) to help endorse Raymond ’s lower back . Along with that , Jeff adds on some upper dead body exercise to round out a full upper eubstance workout .
EP . 3 : BRINGING AFRICAN FARMING home base
This hebdomad Madeline and Jeff get insights into African ethnic planting method from Brooke Bridges of Soul Fire Farm in Upstate New York . Brooke portion out their sustainable gardening techniques such as using dark-brown newspaper and stubble mulch , and how and why she waters seedling hole first . Soul Fire farm also instruct local youth about arise , farming , and harvest home , as well as delivers refreshed food for thought to local family .
Gardening and farming have given Brooke on-going foot and depleted back pain . Jeff observe her horticulture practices , helps her identify where her bother are coming from , and extend her GardenFit localisation to facilitate relieve them .
EP . 2 : ZEN GARDEN
sequence 2 take us to a Japanese Zen - manner garden in Roxbury , CT . Homeowner Bob Levine talk of the town in particular about the fundatmentals of designing a Japanese garden and opens our heart to the use of stone in the garden . Bob ’s garden has a pleasing combining of grain , physique , and color that give his garden a refresing equipoise .
The open gravel and rock place in Bob ’s garden require him to do quite a bit of weeding , leading to knee and lower back pain . See what a difference a few strech , strengthening , and body pose techinques from Jeff can do for Bob ( and you ! ) .
EP . 1 : MEET RENNY REYNOLDS , HORTULUS FARM
In episode one , move around with Madeline and Jeff as they chew the fat Renny Reynolds at Hortulus Farm . Renny ’s linear perspective generate gardeners grown ideas , and he encourages veg gardeners to consider incorporate surprising design feature article in their gardens , believing vegetable gardens should be beautiful as well as generative . You ’ll see how he contrive geometrical beds along with unexpected elements , such as topiary and evergreen . Renny also likes to design around unusual feature incur on his travelling — just wait until you see what he ’s done with a 20 - foot replica of the Eiffel Tower !
Renny ’s garden comes with a lot of job which have led to knee and shoulder discomfort . Learn some " fixes " from Jeff , along with Renny , to keep your joints happy and healthy in the garden and out .
