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This is a sample article from the current issue of Infinity, which is available at various locations throughout the Tri-state area.

Revitalize Your Mind, Body and Spirit with Organic Gardening Therapy
By Wes Duren

To take a leisurely walk through a garden helps to stimulate our senses, ease our stress, relax our mind and exercise our body. Few activities harbor more benefits to humans than gardening. Gardening bridges the gap between young and old, and almost anyone can enjoy planting, maintaining, harvesting or just meandering through a garden. Gardening therapy is an ancient practice which dates back to early Egypt, when mentally and physically ill members of the court were taken on walks through the royal gardens to ease their mind and body. During WWII, wounded and mentally disturbed soldiers were provided rehabilitation by garden club volunteers, who introduced the soldiers to gardening as therapy. Soldiers who were offered garden therapy were proven to have reduced hospital stays. Gardening has now been widely recognized by the medical profession for its therapeutic value. Plants do not judge, they do not threaten, they make no outcry, nor do they complain. Plants serve humans by providing us with color, form, fragrance, food, medicine, wildlife attraction, energy savings, privacy, cleanse our air and generate oxygen, reduce soil erosion and flood waters and lessen global warming; as well as providing us with a multitude of therapeutic benefits. Whether you have a backyard vegetable garden, traditional landscape or container garden, you can achieve peace-of-mind and overall health by working with plants.

We do not need to identify plants by their Latin name to enjoy gardening. All we really need to do is learn how to appreciate the wonders of plant life by smelling the flowers and foliage, tasting edible fruits and blossoms, enjoying the texture of plants, and taking time to treasure the sights and sounds associated with gardening. Garden therapy goes far beyond just receiving pleasure from plants, and can also include the movement of a water feature, flitter of a butterfly, song of a bird, the intricacy of garden art, winding of a pathway, the touch of a granite boulder or the stateliness of a well placed arbor. When we take up gardening, we become connected with our natural world, and can experience a sense of belonging to something far greater than ourselves.

Rather than looking at our garden as something to conquer and control, we should instead view gardening as a means of creative expression, a never ending journey of discovery and as an intricate system in which all parts work together as a whole. Organic gardening promotes and takes advantage of natural processes, helping to reduce our overall gardening workload and lessen the potential for human and environmental harm. Organic gardening methods compliment therapy gardening by encouraging a productive and pure environment both young and old alike can safely enjoy . Rather than subjecting ourselves to toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, we should try to work with nature, and attract beneficial birds and insects to our yard to fend off pest invaders. Organic fertilizers are easy to apply, and safe enough to spread by hand. Anyone with a small backyard can make and spread compost to enrich garden soils. Rather than using dangerous herbicides, we can smother weeds with ten sheets thickness of newspaper, cardboard or paper grocery bags, and promote recycling at the same time. By utilizing organic gardening methods, we can bring balance back to our yard, garden, mind and body.

Listed below are easy ways that anyone can build or make their existing gardens more therapeutic, no matter how large or small.

1. Grow plants that provide fragrance such as: peppermint, rosemary, lavender, rose, lilac, cheddar pinks, cat mint, fringe tree or fragrant viburnum, and plant them in areas where their fragrance can be enjoyed. 2. Utilize plants that provide interest throughout all four seasons, including those with unique foliage, flower, form, bark and berries. 3. Grow edible plants such as: thornless blackberry and raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, tomatoes, sweet peppers, any herbs, beans, grapes, and leafy greens. Intermingle edible fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers amongst companion plants to reduce the need for pest control. Label edible plants in the garden or container so that no one mistakes an edible plant with those which may be poisonous 4. Grow houseplants not only to add beauty, but to also improve the indoor air quality and increase oxygen in our homes. 5. Install a water feature to attract birds, add movement to the garden and to provide perpetual soothing sound. 6. Incorporate a bird house, bird bath, bird feeder and plants with berries that bird will enjoy. Not only will birds grace you with their song and beauty, but also reduce pest insects in your garden. 7. Provide areas in the garden with a sitting stone, chair, bench or log so that one can enjoy moments of contemplation and relaxation while gazing at the garden. 8. Use plants and garden features that are pleasing to our sense of touch. The soft foliage of lamb’s ear, flaky bark of a pine, the fuzzy coating on staghorn sumac, papery smoothness of river birch bark, coarse texture of stone, and the wooly seed ball of a sycamore tree can all stimulate our sense of touch. 9. Build a compost pile or bin so that you can recycle your kitchen scraps and gardening debris. Not only is compost good for all plants, but it’s great exercise to turn your pile with a pitchfork to speed up decomposition. Kids are fascinated with earthworms in compost piles, and birds are equally attracted to compost piles for both worms and nesting materials. 10. By using organic methods, we can enjoy an ecologically balanced garden and promote a safer environment for children, adults, pets, wildlife and our natural environment.

While gardening has proven therapeutic paybacks for developmentally disable children, the senior population, Alzheimer’s patients, prison inmates, abuse victims, and the homeless, we must not forget that gardening is equally beneficial to the rest of the population as well. No matter how young or old, experienced or inexperienced, gardening caters to everyone. Whether you have but a lone container or large border beds, now is the right time to start. When gardening, there is never a need for toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, because there is always a safe and natural alternative. Marvin’s Organic Gardens is the epicenter for organic gardening, and in addition to organic fertilizers and pest control products, MOG carries over 2000 species of trees, shrubs, perennials, herbs and annuals for all your therapy gardening needs. Go Organic! It’s Only Natural.

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