I love that NYC has a compost program. You can send your compostable food scraps to be made into soil.
That said I DO NOT participate in this program because my food scraps are too precious, it's how I make all of my soil! Soil is so expensive and hard to get. I'm not giving it to the city for free.
If you have good soil around your home it's a kind of wealth you may not have noticed. You can improve your soil by adding vermicompost to it. Then you can grow just about anything.
Improving your soil is a very therapeutic way to be a little paranoid.
I cannot prove this, but the smell of good soil seems to somehow heal my mind. I go outside on the roof and just smelling the soil makes me feel more calm and less ... detached.
It has to be good fertile soil, any old dirt won't due. I think it's somehow healing to touch and smell the soil.
@futurebird
there are studies showing that good soil has positive impacts on your brain. Something about producing seratonins.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/66840#1
*edited for corrections & add link
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