Dr Sue Stuart Smith discusses how gardening can help our mental health

EcoDoc Podcast

21-06-2021 • 51 mins

GP Will Liddell talks to Dr Sue Stuart Smith, consulant psychiatrist and psychotherapist,  about her best-selling book exploring the links between gardening and our mental and physical health.  There is a long history of gardens as places of healing and spiritual nourishment, while modern research in neuroscience is shedding more light on  how working with soil and caring for plants helps to achieve beneficial changes in our brains. Gardening on prescription please Mr Hancock!
Sound engineering by Jacob Jennings.

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