ARI factsheet: Allotments for all

Allotments provide a number of health and social benefits but are often inaccessible for the people they could most benefit. Many managers and associations are keen to improve access to their sites. The need to do so is underlined by the Disability Dis ...

Health, well-being and social inclusion of vulnerable a...

This was the focus of the first large-scale research of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture, funded by the BIG Lottery from 2002-2005 and carried out by Thrive in partnership with the Loughborough University.

The project was prompted by the ...

Manchester Harvest - Report

This report summarises the benefits of allotment gardening particularly from a health perspective. It is the result of a project exploring the potential of allotments to be used as green byms for therapeutic horticulture with particular reference to how t ...

The Healing Fields

This volume describes the pioneering horticultural therapy work of the Natural Growth Project at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, where psychotherapy takes place in a natural setting on allotments and in a Remembrance Garden. ...