A Garden of Delight

“The sensory experience of gardening allows people to connect to this primal state, a lot of people understand that experience. They may not be able to put it into words, but they understand what is happening.”

Why Gardening is Good for Your Health

Gardening evokes a passion for individuals with a desire to learn the importance and benefit of planting, growing and nurturing. Over the past decade there has been a substantial growth in the number of edible school gardens in the U.S. Gardening can offer a unique hands on experiential learning opportunity with a main focus on nutrition. Gardening can ease stress and improve your mood.

“Humans have a finite capacity for the kind of directed attention required by cell phones and email and the like, and when that capacity gets used up we tend to become irritable, error-prone, distractible and stressed out.”– Andrea Faber Taylor Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign