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Gardenfit

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Discover how to take care of your body while taking care of your garden with expert gardener Madeline Hooper and personal fitness trainer Jeff Hughes. Tour gardens across America and learn gardening tips and techniques to avoid stress and injury.

Episodes:

• Sticks and Stones

  Environmental artist Patrick Dougherty is known for his life-sized sculptures built using only sticks and saplings and exhibited around the world. We visit one of these, along with his home, surrounded by stick fences, stone archways, paths and walls all of which he built himself. Patrick is given a series of movements to increase flexibility in the ankle and restore function to the lower legs.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Apr 25th, 2024 at 2:31 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Field of Dreams

  Jenny Elliott and her husband Luke Franco transitioned from trained musicians into flower farmers and designers, growing their farm from 6 to 40 acres, and planting more than 300,000 annuals each year by hand! These organic flowers are used in stunning wedding arrangements. Planting and harvesting by hand take a toll on Jenny's back; relief from repetitive bending comes from spinal stretches.

  Next Airing:	Thu, May 2nd, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Little Worlds with Big Ideas

  Visual artist Paula Hayes is known for her sculptures, installation art and landscape design, but she is perhaps best known for her living terrariums of organically shaped, handblown glass. These large and small-scale ecosystems explore relationships between plants and people's connection to nature. Paula learns self-massage to loosen hand muscles and build forearm strength to protect her wrists.

  Next Airing:	Thu, May 9th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Painting with Nature

  Jose Alvarez, (D.O.P. A.) is celebrated for his bright paintings featuring natural materials such as porcupine quills and feathers on mica canvases. His work is collected by museums throughout the country. His two-acre tropical garden provides inspiration and material for his art and reflects his deep connection with the natural world. Shoulder and arm pain are reduced with three simple movements.

  Next Airing:	Thu, May 16th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• A Symphony of Native Plant

  Cynthia Meyers is a renowned flautist and principal piccolo player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She hears the sounds of nature in symphonies. Using native plants, she makes havens for birds, bees and butterflies in her garden retreat. She focuses on untamed environments, turning a grass front yard into a flower garden. Her shoulder and knee pain are eased through better body alignment.

  Next Airing:	Thu, May 23rd, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Staging from the Outside In

  Designer and entrepreneur Meridith Baer's passion for gardening and love of potted plants led to her creation of the real estate practice of "home staging." We'll see how she transformed her "forever home," moving 250 truckloads of dirt to create a tiered garden oasis with fruit trees and peaceful seating areas. Meridith learns to resolve hip pain through stretches and exercises.

  Next Airing:	Thu, May 30th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Plants and All That Jazz

  Leslie Martin, an accomplished jazz musician and classical pianist, is also an avid gardener. His quarter-acre plot in the heart of New Orleans features English cottage-style gardening and Japanese traditional accents. He built waterfalls and bridges, and planted trees to create a rhythmic perimeter around his property. His overworked hands were relieved with pebble massages and stretches.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jun 6th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Framing Mother Nature

  Marion Brenner, an award-winning photographer of gardens and architecture, believes the best photographs make you feel you're in that space. We get to discover how her photography style informs her enchanting gardens, which are filled with unique plants and create a picture-perfect color feast for the eyes. Her chest tightness is relieved, and posture improved with a warmup and cooldown series.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jun 13th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Garden Rooms with a View

  Bunny Williams, a legend in home and garden design, brings her style principle outdoors by creating garden rooms and walkways that flow naturally, just as a well-designed home. We encounter a parterre, formal gardens and spectacular mixed borders in the garden rooms surrounding her house. With a special "kickstand" technique, she learns how to bend in her garden for strong hips and good balance.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jun 20th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Recipes On Fire

  Culinary inventor and chef James Gop invented Dinner Theater, creating dramatic open-fire cooking experiences that turn foraged food into imaginatively presented meals that reflect nature's bounty. He takes us on a journey beyond the dinner plate, providing a new-found appreciation for our environment with a focus on sustainability. James' lower back pain is reduced by using his hips correctly.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jun 27th, 2024 at 2:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• A Vase for Every Flower

  Frances Palmer, renowned ceramicist, avid gardener and photographer, selects flowers from her extensive cutting gardens to pair with her creations of functional vessels made of white porcelain, terracotta, stoneware and earthenware. She captures these stunning compositions with photography for her socials. Long hours in the garden and studio create posture issues, which she learns how to correct.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Bees, Blooms & Bracelets

  Jewelry designer Nicholas Varney's gardens, apple orchards and ponds provide inspiration for his unique creations. He reconstructs colors found in nature, employing gemstones, exotic woods, pearls and other natural materials with precious stones to create an organic aesthetic rarely seen in fine jewelry. His back pain when weeding is addressed with body positioning and stretches.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• Clipped to Perfection

  Enjoy a topiary forest in Richmond, Massachusetts, surrounded by beautiful hedge gardens, imaginative potted-plant combinations and a dramatic stumpery. Back pain caused by endless clipping is relieved with simple turns and a new daily habit.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/21/2022 to 9/20/2024

• Edible Classroom

  Alice Waters created the farm-to-table movement and pioneered California cuisine. Her restaurant, Chez Panisse, is famous for changing how food is sourced, prepared and presented. She also founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, bringing education to kids through school gardens and kitchens. Alice learns a simple routine to restore shoulder movement and reduce stress while harvesting fruit trees.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/18/2024 to 3/17/2026

• One Vision - Two Coasts

  Travel to an English-style garden in Washington, Connecticut, and the same gardener's Mediterranean-style desert garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, California. The gardener learns "do anywhere" exercises that help him walk tall.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/21/2022 to 9/20/2024

• The Wild Wild West

  Marfa, Texas, is home to a unique desert garden created by one of the foremost experts on native plants throughout Texas and the Southwest. His daily chores take a toll on his shoulders and flexibility, which is reduced by a new stretch routine.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/21/2022 to 9/20/2024

• Three Sisters and a Brother

  A gardener in Carp Lake, Michigan, who heads a traditional Native American Garden, continues the work of her ancestors by planting three sister vegetables. Struggling to find time for recreation, she learns how to make her lifestyle the solution.

  Length:	00:26:46
  Usage rights:	3/21/2022 to 9/20/2024

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