Kitchen Garden

THE DISABLED GARDENER 'There's Always A Way To Grow Your Own'

“It seems the most unlikely place for someone to recuperate with a long-term disability, but without my garden I would have sunk into a dark place”

Being disabled made me a gardener in my late twenties. It was my consultant who said the best therapy after my accident was to grow my own. Over 15 years I have had to learn how to adapt to gardening with a disability, from growing in a small cottage garden to taking on a quarter acre on the Pennines. It seems the most unlikely place for someone to recuperate with a long-term disability, but

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