The Garden Cure: Cultivating our well-being and growth

This is a story of gardens and how people can grow well in them. Through a lifetime's experience of award-winning work in community gardens and as a horticultural therapy trainer, Cameron shows us how tending to green spaces can bring tremendous therapeutic benefits to our mental health. Using the garden's annual cycle, she reveals how stages of the growing year can act as a powerful metaphor and even mirror healing mechanisms for states of distress, anxiety, depression and other conditions. By exploring practices used in therapeutic gardens we learn techniques that can be applied to all walks of life, whether in a community or in your own home. This isn't just a handbook on how gardening can improve physical and mental well-being, it's an education on how to better support the people in our lives whose mental health is challenged. How, in other words, gardening helps us all grow and thrive.