As any weekend gardener knows, maintaining a backyard plot can yield a host of sore muscles. Spread that small-scale effort across the acreage of a commercial farm and it’s easy to see that agribusiness professionals can easily overextend themselves physically. Preventing those injuries is one goal of GardenFit, a new show covered by Kim Douglas in Main Line Today.

GardenFit premiers on American Public Television on Mar. 21 with an episode shot at Hortulus Farm Garden & Nursery in Newtown. Owner Renny Reynolds’ workload there has taken a physical toll, requiring his routine use of a knee brace.

Reynolds entrusts his well-being to GardenFit’s personal trainer, Jeff Hughes, who collaborated on the show’s overall concept with expert gardener Madeleine Hooper.

Reynolds’ plight resonated particularly with her.

“I’ve been a lifelong gardener and always had a stiff neck and exhausted shoulders and back,” said Hooper. “I thought it was something you lived with — until a friend recommended Jeff. I kept training with him and learning how to not let things like gardening stress my body.”

The program blossomed from a desire to help farmers physically as well as horticulturally. The destination show will also explore garden concepts and crop health — as well as the physical soundness of the farmers themselves.

More on GardenFit is at Main Line Today.