The Healing Garden- sowing the seeds of health.

The garden has always been central to our relationship with nature. It is where we interact with the natural world and attempt to tame, cultivate and refine those aspects of nature that provide us with what we need: food, medicine, and space for contemplation.

But we now find ourselves inhabiting an increasingly urban environment and so feel increasingly disconnected from nature, each other and the natural cycles that have governed our lives throughout the history of mankind. We have lost our sense of how we fit into the world around us, a sense that was once taken for granted. 

This is why we are once again turning to the garden; exploring its potential to nurture, sustain and heal. We look to it to provide foods that we can be sure are good and nourishing and have become more aware of its potential to support the ecology and biodiversity of our planet. People are enjoying a new sense of community by working with others to enhance local environments, by developing allotments, supporting local growers and learning how our gardens can provide simple but effective medicine for the body, mind and emotions.

It is through embracing the opportunities that our gardens offer that we can begin to regain the balance we have lost between ourselves and nature. By discovering our place in the garden we sow the seeds of rediscovery for our place in the world

Steve Taylor

Our special thanks to Tony Chipps from Morpheus Garden Design who has designed the Healing Garden, Maggie Haynes and Beka Theed from Tuppenny Barn who have lovingly grown many of the plants, to Steve Taylor from The Medicine Garden whose inspiration this all was and to the stands who have contributed plants and objects to make it look beautiful .