Yesterday was a big day for Gardening4Health: the first in-person meeting of our Board of Trustees.
It was lovely to go back to Tuppenny Barn: venue for our first Green Therapies conference last year. Tuppenny truly is a brilliant model for any therapeutic garden to follow, and Founder and CEO Maggie Haynes showed us round the site, inspiring us with all the extraordinary projects that go on there.
Maggie is one our our six founding trustees, along with Farah Brooks-Johnson, Richard Claxton, Boyd Douglas-Davies, Wendy Fenn and Anne Wagstaff. You can read more about them all, over on the “Our People” page.
Nobody leaves Tuppenny without a full belly, and either side of a delicious lunch we talked through our vision for the coming weeks and months. We’ve got big plans, and there’s lots to be getting on with!
Dr Carly Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Essex and Director of the Health, Exercise and Active Lifestyle Research Group there. Her research is focused on how nature-based interventions can be embedded within health systems to ensure access for all. She spoke about this at Tuppenny Barn last year.
As part of her work, she’s produced some useful Infographics designed to be shared with service users (above), health professionals and policy makers/commissioners (below). There’s also a guideline for their use.
Click the link below to catch up with a webinar where all of this is explained, and there’s also a useful short film from an STH provider on the Healing Power of Gardening.
I’m deeply honoured and somewhat amazed to find myself featured in the @gardens_illustrated list of Horticultural Heroes for 2024. Indeed, I’m all the more incredulous when I see who else they’ve chosen – I’m in extraordinarily good company!
“Gardens Illustrated’s top 20 horticultural heroes 2024 is a list of extraordinary garden champions who are making a difference to places, people, plants, and the planet.”
Gardening is, for me, the ultimate in holistic healthcare interventions. It’s been such a massive help to me personally over the years, as well as to my patients.
I hope being included on this list helps raise the profile of gardening as a means to better physical and mental health for us all, as well as for the benefit of the world and it’s fragile ecosystems: upon which we all depend.
Whether I’m working as a GP, for Greenfingers charity, Project Giving Back, or on behalf of @gardening4health – I’ll happily share this message to anyone who will listen, and in time, we can together make Social and Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available as possible.
To this end, I’m also delighted to become a contributor to the magazine – exploring these issues in a series of articles over the coming months – the first of which is published in the October edition. Thank you, Gardens Illustrated, for highlighting so many of the wonderful ways Horticulture can make a difference!
I’m deeply honoured and somewhat amazed to find myself featured in the @gardens_illustrated list of Horticultural Heroes for 2024. Indeed, I’m all the more incredulous when I see who else they’ve chosen – I’m in extraordinarily good company! “Gardens Illustrated’s top 20 horticultural heroes 2024 is a list of extraordinary garden champions who are making a difference to places, people, plants, and the planet.” Gardening is, for me, the ultimate in holistic healthcare interventions. It’s been such a massive help to me personally over the years, as well as to my patients. I hope being included on this list helps raise the profile of gardening as a means to better physical and mental health for us all, as well as for the benefit of the world and it’s fragile ecosystems: upon which we all depend. Whether I’m working as a GP, for Greenfingers charity, Project Giving Back, or on behalf of @gardening4health – I’ll happily share this message to anyone who will listen, and in time, we can together make Social and Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available as possible.
To this end, I’m also delighted to become a contributor to the magazine – exploring these issues in a series of articles over the coming months – the first of which is published in the October edition.
Thank you, Gardens Illustrated, for highlighting so many of the wonderful ways Horticulture can make a difference!
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