Some of us wait decades to retire, and once it happens, we’re left with more free time than we know what to do with. With a newly open schedule, it’s the ideal time to pick up a new hobby or focus on the hobbies we already love but never had time for before.
Explore your options and see what fits your lifestyle and interests the best! We think gardening is the perfect hobby for a happy retirement because of the many benefits it provides; physically, mentally and even financially. Below are some examples of the benefits that come with taking on gardening as a hobby during retirement.
Gardening Into Retirement
Spending Time Outside
Spending time outside is good for mind, body and soul. It’s essentially a free form of therapy! Spending time outside, getting fresh air and taking in Vitamin D can revitalize your energy and overall mood. In other words, more gardening could help contribute to a happier retirement.
Light Exercise
If you struggle to find ways to incorporate exercise into your lifestyle, gardening can be used as a light form of exercise that could lead to improved physical health. Burn calories, strengthen your hands and work your body muscles while having fun gardening during your retirement.
Fresh Produce and Flowers
Picking up gardening as a hobby will lead to a kitchen full of fresh produce, as well as fresh flowers to spread the love with. If you grow your own fruits and vegetables, you’re more likely to eat them more frequently.
Enhance Natural Outdoor Beauty
We would be careless to overlook the benefit of enhancing the beauty of your yard when spending more time gardening. Colorful flowers can be extremely aesthetically pleasing in the back or front yard of your home, and hearty vegetables are not too shabby to the eye either.
Save Money on Healthy Diet
You never thought you’d see ‘save money’ and ‘healthy diet’ in the same sentence, right? In the case of gardening, growing your own fruits and vegetables will benefit financially, allowing you to spend a lot less on seeds compared to buying fresh produce at the supermarket or local farm stand.
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henry100 4 years ago
Well here i go,
ShareIm 71 (january) and we live here in France now having left the uk “Bala wales” and im very much into both the country way of living “peace perfect peace” and both my garden “2 acres” deep in the countryside with very few humans about,
My second love is our rescue dogs “two of them” and both had very bad lives until we had the luck to find the local animal rescue centre ” Oh i’d better add ”
After my wife (I did’nt find her in the rescue centre) but if i dont mention her I’ll get no dinner,
What i like about gardening is the fact that we’re all only lending the ground from mother nature and its an on going task to try and change what mother nature has loaned to us and then we go against what she’s done and make our gardens all kinds of uniformed shapes plus grow plants and seeds from across the world we’re they once had perfect weather in the verious parts of the world to grow!!!
And what do we try to do !!!
continue to grow these verious plants etc in our climate,
So what im saying is we’re all only leasing the land and mother nature will one day get it back and then we’ll have to see what the weather conditions are then and what mother nature grows.
Gardening to me is a hobby and both helps with health by giving me a chance to work at my own pace and if i get to work to hard again the weather will have a say how much to do on any given part of the season.
Gardening is a forever changing hobby and one thats very rewarding both in having a chance to learn about our food chain and how it works and to share this wonderfull hobby with other like minded people,
Thank you for welcoming myself to join the forum And i look forward very much to reading the verious topics.