Therapeutic Gardening

Therapeutic Gardening or Horticulture Therapy is a process using plants and horticultural activities to promote well-being. It improves people's body, mind and spirit and therefore improves their quality of life.  Gardening enables people to socialize and to verbalize their feelings.  Gardening can be adapted for everyone to participate and is excellent for stress reduction and health management.

One of the keys to managing stress is to balance work and relaxation, while increasing our feeling of being in control.  Gardening provides an excellent means for achieving this.  Gardening Opportunities at Kukui are many and varied.  

For more information on Horticultural Therapy, see www.uoguelph.ca/hortsci/chta.

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