Wellbeing through gardening
Kim explains how getting up close and personal with nature has greatly helped her ten-year-old autistic son, Arthur get close and personal with nature
If someone had said to me ten years ago that autism and the therapeutic benefits of gardening will become your life, I wouldn’t have believed them. Yes, I enjoyed growing some of my own food in my back yard in Brighton, but it wasn’t until my son Arthur’s autism diagnosis a few years back that everything changed. Now I believe so strongly in the power of gardening to help those on the spectrum having seen its positive impact on my son, I’ve set up a social enterprise to do just this.
It’s also very much about the eating, with a combination of raised beds, herb gardens, polytunnels, soft fruit garden and lots more foraging opportunities besides. Every person on the spectrum is under- or overstimulated in a number of ways, so it’s important for us to aim to cater for all. We’ve already got one quiet corner as a place of retreat in case of s…
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