NHS Launches Gardening Course For Depressed Patients
The NHS is piloting an eight week course in gardening and vegetable growing to help combat depression.
This is not a new ‘therapy' as many daycare centres have a gardening group, but in the past has focused on flowers and garden shrubs. The thought behind this process is growing some of your own food can have a restorative effect, being part of the natural world, sowing, watering, weeding, pruning, harvesting and eating the produce from the plants helps to re-establish an individual
