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SATURDAY: Making the Most Most of Your Relationship with Your Garden
Join us at the Lafayette Community Garden for our first class of the season. Come learn how gardens nourish us in more ways than one.
Working in a vegetable garden creates a unique relationship between gardeners and the plants that they grow. Plants nourish us at the same time that we care for them, creating a relationship of reciprocity. Darlene DeRose, Certified Master Gardener and Ecotherapist, will lead this workshop designed to deepen garden members' experience of this reciprocity.
Saturday, April 2, 2016 | 1:00 – 2:00PM
Lafayette Community Garden, 3932 Mt Diablo Blvd (across from and just west of Lafayette Reservoir)
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Topics we will cover include:
- the latest scientific discoveries of the healing benefits of nature including stress reduction, increased attention and improved learning ability;
- the underlying philosophical, ecological and spiritual theories about why working in a garden is a healing experience;
- the emerging field of ecotherapy, a form of healing work that seeks to reconnect humans with the natural world;
- practices that will support and deepen participants’ relationships with the plants that they grow.
Our classes are free. However, a $5 donation is appreciated to support our education programs.
