Gardening is not a cure, but research suggests it can support wellbeing through attention, movement, routine, sensory contact, and the gentle work of caring for living things.
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Monastic gardens matter because they remind us that gardening is also a form of record keeping. A religious community needed food, materials, places for reflection, and care for sick members. Beds, orchards, and enclosed courts brought some of those needs into a landscape that had to be weeded, watered, harvested, and renewed. In unsettled centuries, the quiet continuity of that…
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