198 - Friday Fix: How Growing a Garden Can Reduce Your Depression
The Verywell Mind Podcast
Growing Vegetables in a Community Garden
Mental health centere had a variety of programmes, like a day programme for adults who had mental illnesses that interfered with their ability to work. A lot of those people worked in our garden. They grew vegetables and flowers most of the summer. Some of them became happier. Most of them seemed a lot more confident. The kids who tried to act really tough on the outside, though, seemed to really gt into gardening. One of them asked if he could start to take home some vegetables to give to one of his elderly neighbors. And soon a whole bunch of em banded together and decided they wanted to start a vegetable stand to sell some of the vegetables that they were growing.
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