Garden for Life

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“From an award-winning writer and photographer comes the perfect guide to help you evaluate your garden situation, redesign your garden, and right-size your space to make gardening easier! 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,

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From award-winning writer and photographer Rhonda Fleming Hayes comes the perfect guide to help you evaluate, redesign, and right-size your garden space as you age-to make gardening easier, more sustainable, and perennially fun!

In Garden for Life, Rhonda Fleming Hayes brings a lifetime of gardening experience, research-based advice, and collective wisdom to older gardeners who are looking for inspiration and practical strategies. This delightful comprehensive guide presents new techniques and tools to make gardening less strenuous, and highlights plants that “multitask” to make a garden more sustainable-for both the gardener and the environment. It also advises on how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so we can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of spending time in the garden.

Garden for Life reminds us that gardening is a simple way to answer the human need to connect with nature, a craving called biophilia, while highlighting its many proven health benefits. Gardening offers a low-intensity workout with a variety of natural movements, provides a sense of purpose while nurturing a meditative state that decreases stress, fosters improved nutrition and better brain health, and grows social connection and community. In short, gardening is excellent for health and longevity!

“I love the message of Garden for Life because it’s not about doing less and giving up what we love. It’s about gardening smarter.”-Joe Lamp’l

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256
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English
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General – Trade / Code: K

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