Actor Pamela Anderson has traded studio lights for sunlight. In a video posted on her Instagram this week, the former Baywatch star walked fans through a thriving vegetable patch at her family property in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, Canada, showing off rows of homegrown produce she has raised herself. The clip has since caught the attention of fans who are more used to seeing Anderson on screen than knee-deep in soil.

For Anderson, though, this garden isn't a passing hobby or a pandemic project that fizzled out. It is central to the quiet, land-based life she has built for herself away from Hollywood, one that mixes vegan living, a skincare brand called Sonsie, and a genuine, years-long obsession with growing her own food.

A garden tour, straight from Vancouver Island

In the video, Anderson strolled past healthy, leafy rows before turning her camera toward a particularly full patch of vegetables. "Look what's growing in my garden," she said, letting the produce do the talking. The footage showed a wide mix of vegetables, all grown at her family compound, proof, fans noted, that her green thumb is no accident.

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This isn't her first rodeo with a rake

Anderson's fans didn't need convincing that she loves gardening, she has been showing off her plants for years. The actor, who is vegan and co-founded Sonsie, regularly gives followers a window into her calmer, nature-heavy routine on the island. Her gardening life even got its own TV show once: HGTV's Pamela's Garden of Eden followed her as she reworked her family estate, turning patches of land into what has now become a full vegetable garden.

'You couldn't name a vegetable I don't have'

Ask Anderson about her garden and she doesn't hold back. In a 2025 interview with Elle, she opened up about just how far her plant obsession runs, flowers included. "I'm a big rose connoisseur. I have so many variations of roses, but I love Yves Piaget. That's my favorite garden rose," she said. Sunflowers made the cut too, because, in her words, "they are such a happy, happy plant."

But it's the vegetables she's proudest of. "I have a really big vegetable garden. You couldn't name a vegetable I don't have, I don't think. It's pretty amazing. I rotate the crops and I try new things. I feel like every season is a new opportunity to try something completely different. You can just wipe the slate clean and start over," she told the magazine.

How a renovation turned into therapy

The garden wasn't always this elaborate. Anderson traced it back to a simple decision she made after renovating her Vancouver Island property. "I had a lot of space and I just felt like I wanted to live off the land and grow my own garden and do a lot of canning and pickling," she said, adding that the habit runs in her family.

What started as a practical idea slowly turned into something she now leans on. "It really has been a self-soothing meditation. I read books to my plants. I do all sorts of funny things... This is the Sonsie lifestyle: Having little quirks and fun and joy," Anderson said.

Her latest Instagram tour is really just the newest chapter in that story, a peek at the slow, soil-covered life she has chosen for herself, far from any film set.