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Adaptive Gardening’s Cool At Any Age

Adaptive Gardening is Cool at Any Age

Gardening as Therapy, How-to
When I began writing my blog in 2017, the reader I had in mind was the senior gardener who was rethinking their gardening future in view of health challenges. That decision was based on an article I had read in a recent landscaping trade magazine suggesting that landscape professionals learn about the special needs facing their...
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5 Ways Gardening Enhances Lives

Gardening as Therapy
5 ways to maximize the goodness of gardening Did you know gardening can have a significant, positive impact on people's lives? During the pandemic, 18 million new gardeners turned to their outdoor spaces to relieve the stress and anxiety caused by isolation. In addition to the calming effect that working in and visiting gardens can...
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Houseplants have become the new Officeplants or Workplants - National Garden Bureau

Houseplants are the New Officeplants

Gardening as Therapy, Indoor Gardening
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-to
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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Therapeutic Garden Tips for Home Gardeners

Gardening as Therapy
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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The Top 10 Gardening Guidelines to Live By... National Garden Bureau

10 Adaptive Gardening Rules To Live By…

Gardening as Therapy
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 Therapy
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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