From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

No doubt all of you who are listening, all you gardeners, would agree that interacting

with plants and with nature has a restorative benefit, that it has the undeniable power

to lift us up and make us feel better.

That idea that working with plants is therapeutic is the foundation of the field of horticultural therapy.

Today's guest, Eric Keller, has practiced horticultural therapy for more than 20 years, using plants and nature to help clients from cancer patients to special needs children

and disabled seniors to help them cope

and to make positive life changes.

He's also author of the therapist's garden,

using plants to revitalize your spirit.

Erickson Master Gardener

and manages the Gardens and Horticultural Therapy Program

at Anne's Place in Danbury, Connecticut,

and organization assisting cancer patients and their families.

We don't need to be in a formal Horticultural Therapy Program, though.

Eric wants to remind each of us of the power of what we're doing outside and give us some

advice on how to maximize its benefit.

So I'm ready for that, Eric.

Thank you for being here.

Well, thanks, Margaret.

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