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Become an Adaptive Gardener with these tips and tricks - National Garden Bureau

Nobody Ever Has To Be A Retired Gardener

Garden Planning & Design, Gardening as Therapy, How-toAugust 18, 2022gail
Become an adaptive gardener... Gardening is an activity that most of us do because we want to. We do it because it’s pleasurable, healthy, puts fresh produce on the table, beautifies our environment, and the list goes on. However, when the breathing gets more difficult or the knees or back give out, many gardeners call...
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Houseplants have become the new Officeplants or Workplants - National Garden Bureau

Houseplants are the New Officeplants

Gardening as Therapy, Indoor GardeningFebruary 17, 2022gail
Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, plants “breathe” in the carbon dioxide and release oxygen. We are perfect partners with plants. While we have officed at home, more and more of us have felt the benefits of houseplants. Filling our home office with undemanding plants we’ve understood more fully the calm they...
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Make Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To - National Garden Bureau

Create Your Own Zen Garden: Why and How To

Gardening as Therapy, How-toFebruary 9, 2022gail
Destress, Embrace Tranquility, and Journey to Enlightenment with a Zen Garden Are you having a hard time channeling your inner Zen? Peace and tranquility may feel in short supply these days, but gardening elevates mental health and provides a great escape from relentless news cycles and the stressful state of the world. While any chance...
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Top 10 reasons to Garden

National Garden Bureau’s Top Ten Reasons to Garden

Gardening as TherapyFebruary 19, 2021diane
Get Gardening...Top Ten Reasons To Start! Mobile phones, tablets, and apps have become the tools of our modern lives. But it wasn’t that long ago that a shovel, a patch of soil, and a bag of seeds were the only tools needed to provide sustenance and satisfaction. With the 2020 COVID Pandemic, more and more...
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Therapeutic Garden Tips for Home Gardeners

Gardening as TherapySeptember 30, 2020diane
Yes, You Can! Create a Garden with Therapeutic Benefits! Therapeutic gardens, typically seen at healthcare facilities, are “designed for use as a component of a treatment, rehabilitation, or vocational program… to meet the needs of a specific user or population…to accommodate participant’s goals and to facilitate people-plant interactions” (American Horticultural Therapy Association, 2017). Also defined...
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Cultivate Something Good - Garden - National Garden Bureau

Cultivate Something Good – Your Garden and Your Well-Being

Gardening as TherapyMarch 17, 2020gail
Your yoga classes, meetings, and concerts are canceled. The kids are out of school and you’re being encouraged to stay home. In this time of #Covid-19, here are a few suggestions to cultivate something good. Start some seeds. Nothing is more life-affirming than checking each morning to see if something spouted. Plan a vegetable garden....
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The Top 10 Gardening Guidelines to Live By... National Garden Bureau

10 Adaptive Gardening Rules To Live By…

Gardening as TherapyOctober 2, 2019gail
What is Adaptive Gardening? Adaptive gardening offers a myriad of ways for gardeners of all ages with a limited range of motion, the wheelchair bound, or anyone wanting to reduce stress on their joints, to identify what works for them in their garden according to their personal physical realities. My approach will help you think...
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The Monarch School of New England - Therapeutic Garden Winner - National Garden Bureau

Our Therapeutic Garden Grant at Work!

Gardening as TherapyAugust 9, 2018gail
The Monarch School of New England was honored to be the 2017 recipient of the $3,000 Therapeutic Garden Grant award from the National Garden Bureau and Sakata Seed America. As the Monarch School of New England opened its new regional High School & Vocational Center in July 2017, the funds awarded were used to pay...
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Why and How to Create a Healing Garden

Garden Planning & Design, Gardening as TherapyApril 11, 2017diane
In the best of times flowers help us celebrate the joyous occasions in our lives. In more difficult times plants give us hope and inspiration to meet life’s challenges. The role of plants and gardens in healing is ancient. As early as 3000 B.C. the Chinese were using medicinal herbs. The Greeks built a temple...
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