The founder of Flamingo Estate has a secret for handling stress—and it has a lot to do with dirt

Richard Christiansen is speaking to me in Los Angeles from Flamingo Estate, which is both his home and the name of his business, where he sells products like soap and olive oil made from ingredients sourced from regenerative farms in Southern California. He’s on his phone in the garden, staring at a giant eucalyptus tree that is shedding its bark. “The tree quite literally pushes toxins out and sheds it down,” he says. “It’s sort of purifying. I think it teaches us we need to shed our own...