Episode 29: The Yoga of Urban Gardening with Yasuke Daddy, YOGA TEACHER 200 RYT – URBAN FARMER URBAN AGRICULTURIST – URBAN FORESTER

This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day—so we thought we’d spotlight how the getting-people-back-to-the-earth trends of farming and gardening are a key focus of not one, but several, of our top wellness trends for 2022. The pandemic has made self-sufficiency and survivalism much bigger values. And the quickening environmental and soil crisis is sparking a new awareness that we must restore the world’s soil (through more regenerative farming practices), while the medical evidence mounts that exposure to soil brings so many eye-opening health benefits. Sherry interviews, Yasuke Daddy, a yoga teacher, urban farmer, agriculturist and urban forester (Vintage Greenhouse & Vintage Yasuke LC) located in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia metro area. Besides his yoga certification, Yasuke has been serving the most needed communities that he once grew up in. His clientele is from impoverished and underrepresented communities that have a lack of resources for mental health and physical longevity. His company has teamed up with an urban farm in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC to change the nutrition disparity that plagues our communities today. Since partnering, Yasuke has created community educational gardens, eco system recovery and urban farming. He has also obtained two acres of farming land in South Hill, Va (near Sherry's ancestral matriarchal lineage) for mass production that will cycle directly to communities in need. Sherry and Yasuke discuss how to create container gardens and bridging the gap between yoga and farming for overall longevity..