Success StoryPreparing Your Garden



Preparing Your Garden

Author: Edith Lovett

Planning Unit: Pulaski County CES

Major Program: Substance Use and Mental Health - FCS

Plan of Work: Wellness & Healthy Communities-NEW

Outcome: Initial Outcome

     Today we are finding out that Gardening is not only great for producing healthy vegetables, but it is also a valuable tool for our mental and physical state of mind. Vegetable gardening not only helps to provide us with fresh vegetables, but it also allows us to be outdoors, increases our self-esteem, relieves stress in our body, helps us to feel better and provides us a tool for using our motor skills through exercising, bending up and down. Our clients that were enrolled in our “Growing Your Own Garden” not only learned how to “Grow a Garden” but also received information on how gardening improved their mental and physical condition. For our beginner gardening clients, they also learned about soil sampling and the importance of doing soil sampling before they planted a garden. By a show of hands, 100% percent of our clients reported they had never heard of soil sampling and had never thought about gardening helping them with their physical and mental outlook on life. Each one reported they were ready to bring in soil samples and prepare to grow their own garden.



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