“More and more research has been coming out about gardening, exposure to nature in a safe setting, and horticultural therapy as effective tools for fighting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress-related problems. Here are some resources.” From the website HealingLandscapes.org.

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Listen to Dr. Barbara Mossberg as she “consider[s] the relationship between gardening and poetry from earliest times, as poets wipe soil from their hands to pen their thoughts on the inextricable connections between the act of creating and co-creating Truth and Beauty out of earthly experience, between what is sown and grown and pruned and tended, between mortal and immortal beauty… and we’ll hear about a book called Defiant Gardens by Kenny Helphand.”

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