Yeah, often the hardest part with helping out in the dirt for me is getting myself to stop looking inward and peer outward into meatspace for once lmfaoooo. But my theory is that the more you make your yardwork something you actually subsist off of, and the more purpose-driven it is, the easier it’ll be to be present and to be positively productive. When you’re otherwise living a pretty normie industriod life but you just happen to have a family garden that merely supplements groceries, it’s gotta be much easier to mentally check out and feel less of a responsibility to oneself to escape the derealized stupor. Doubly so if it’s an effort that’s not initiated by you or taken on under your own responsibility, y’know? I like to think I’d be more capable of coming into my own when my effort exerted is better reflected in the things I can put on the dinner table. Not to say we wouldn’t also be getting groceries tho, but decreased reliance on moneyed trade to sustain our lifestyle while also giving back to our environment is certainly the ideal, which to my mind would reach perfection when fruits and vegetables that grow on the land around us is like 85% of our diet, and then some occasional treats from the grocery store and vitamin supplements make up the remaining 15.