Dakota Gardener: Gardening is the antidote to a dehumanizing online world

Time spent in green spaces and gardens can reduce anxiety and stress. NDSU photo>
Time spent in green spaces and gardens can reduce anxiety and stress. NDSU photo>

Despite my best efforts, I thought I had failed to pass on my love of gardening to my daughter.

For years, she laughed at my passion for all things green.

That changed this spring.

Weary from an exhausting year at college, she deleted social media and poured herself into a burgeoning love of houseplants. She carefully transplanted rootbound plants, started propagating succulents and agonized over whe…