This sounds lovely! This definitely sounds like the kind of thing that would really work well to let all the stresses of the everyday wash off!

It reminds me a lot of the YouTube channel "life in jars", he normally makes videos about microbiology and freshwater ecology in... jars!

But on top of that he also had a short series on gaining the trust of and befriending crows in his city.

Good incentive for me to try this out!