You have to get in there and get your hands dirty!
Oh yes, you have! Definitely! And I am telling this being totally on the other side. Being brought up in a flat with minimum experience of nature in my everyday life! Maybe that's why I left everything behind and became a farmer out of nowhere at my 30's. My passion for getting my hands dirty was too strong at the end, haha!
I love reading to these happy memories!!!
I feel for you. I probably would have done the same. Or at least tried to have a massive garden indoors and on the balcony!
It is amazing how things work to come in balance eventually someday!