Garden For Life - Rhonda Fleming Hayes

In a recent survey, Forbes magazine found that 77 percent of adults over 50 prefer to age in place as a way to preserve independence, familiarity, community, and quality of life. Many of them don t want to leave gardens that in some cases they ve spent a lifetime nurturing but now find daunting to maintain. As people approaching retirement age experience physical changes, they are also encountering financial and family changes, and differing priorities that can affect the amount of time and energy they allot to gardening. Garden for Life will help older gardeners evaluate their garden situation, suggesting ways to redesign an existing garden or to design a new one when downsizing (or right-sizing ), new techniques and tools to make gardening easier, how to select appropriate plants, and also how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so that they can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of gardening. Hayes has long written about the how-to of gardening and is also keenly aware of the why. Gardening is a simple way to answer the human need to connect with nature; that craving, called biophilia is so powerful that doctors in many cases have started prescribing time in nature over drugs. Gardening offers a low-intensity workout with a variety of natural movements. Time spent tending plants can produce a meditative state that decreases stress while giving the gardener a sense of purpose. Growing your own food is a recipe for improved nutrition and better brain health. Garde
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