Garden Route Therapy

Lots of lively discussion at the Organic Garden and Permaculture Discussion Group offered by Garden Jane.

We continue to work through the Natural Farming ideas of Masanobu Fukuoka and consider practical applications for this knowledge in an urban area like Toronto.

From Fukuoka’s book, The One-Straw Revolution, I was able to glean the following quotes which I found to be particularly meaningful for my studies in horticultural therapy:

“Ultimately it is not the growing technique which is the most important factor, but rather the state of mind of the farmer (46).”

“Food and medicine are not two different things:  they are the front and back of one body.  Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine (100).”

“If a sick person returns to a healthy environment often the disease will disappear (144).”

We have an “in the garden” session set-up for April and in the meantime an opportunity to consider how to unite the body, the heart and the mind through our garden practices.