How can I carry on gardening?
Thrive, a health charity that uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable have useful hints and tips from other gardeners.
The Get Gardening section of the Thrive website is full of ideas and inspiration for gardeners with sight loss, including how you can use gardening to enhance your health and wellbeing.
They also run therapeutic gardening sessions at their centres in Reading, London and Birmingham. You can find out more on the Thrive website.
Thrive also have the following specialised gardening publications available to purchase. Most of which are available in large print, braille and audio formats:
- Getting on with growing food
- Getting on with growing in containers
- Gardening Yearbook
- Gardening Together.
You can also download them in PDF format for free, from the publications section of their website.
For more information contact Thrive:
- 0118 988 5688
- [email protected]
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