Posted in Allotment, Mental health, allotmenteering, antidepressant, depression, gardening, horticultural therapy, mental illness, permaculture, sustainability on May 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Nigel Lee writes for healthmatters - ‘Blooming good health’
Nige describes how the Ecoworks project in Nottingham aims at being a truly user-centered service - in fact it grew out of a mental health advocacy project… They have successfully taken over six over-grown allotments, using principles of organic gardening and permaculture…
It is another example of [...]
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So another break in the drought that is Spring 2007… It has been a very exciting night in the South West… we got soaked…
And the best thing is that we managed to remember to have our water butt lid off this time - an essential part of any water collection system - we didn’t last [...]
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Ta to Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons blog for the heads up on this article by Bruce Stutz in ‘The New York Times’, entitled ‘Self-Nonmedication’. He describes his experience of depression and psychotherapy, and his use of antidepressants, specifically Effexor. Bruce describes why he started to take antidepressants and asks the question are users [...]
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