Soil to Supper provides onsite and online programs to enable people from all walks of life to access the garden, grow fresh food, build connections and cultivate wellbeing.
“Our purpose is to make gardening accessible for everyone’s wellbeing”
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The Wellbeing Garden Academy
Do you have a passion for gardening? Would you enjoy a field of work that brings joy and wellbeing to others?
Join The Wellbeing Garden Academy and learn ways to provide meaningful garden-based activities to people from all walks of life.
Through the Academy training and online resources you’ll discover ways to effectively guide and support others to enjoy gardening in their home, within an aged care home, NDIS, school or community organisation.
“Growing Together” Program
The Soil to Supper Growing Together Program is for people of all ages and abilities and delivered onsite within organisations or in participant’s homes by our trained team.
The program cultivates social connection, improves emotional wellbeing and physical health, new skills are learnt and confidence develops through garden-based activities and growing fresh food.
Learn Online with Cath
Learn, grow and thrive with our self-paced online courses.
Gather knowledge, tips and inspirations with leading Horticulturist, Cath Manuel, to grow food and grow health!
Become a ‘savvy’ gardener, develop your confidence to cultivate and harvest homegrown food and grow your health in the garden.
Cath’s latest episodes & posts…
Cultivating Connections: Why our Growing Together Program is more than gardening.
Most gardeners understand the enjoyment and satisfaction from spending time in the garden, tending to plants, digging the earth and harvesting delicious homegrown food to share...
Episode 44 – Five Fun Tabletop Activities
I’ve been working through a few updates to our Growing Together Program and have added some new activities to each season. The more programs we deliver, the more fun activities I...
Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge and passion for this industry, it’s inspiring and exciting to think of the possibilities to work in the field of therapeutic horticulture.
I was feeling depressed from not being able to get into the garden.
Thankyou for everything you have done for me and my favourite place.
Therapeutic gardening program a veritable lifesaver…
There is no doubt in my mind that Cath Manuel’s Therapeutic Gardening Program has been one of the most significant positive influences on my recovery from Major Depression and General Anxiety Disorder.
From the initial planning session onward, Cath uses a collaborative approach to the creation of my weekly gardening sessions. Developing the program to meet my physical, mental and emotional needs appears to come natural to Cath.
My active involvement in planning ensures that I get the maximum benefit from every gardening session. Initially I was capable of limited input to this process however with Cath’s increasing knowledge of my needs and limitations, and using her horticultural knowledge and experience, she was able to draw on my gradually returning capabilities. Over time I was more confident and increasingly able to contribute to the planning process.
I value our weekly, two-and-a-half hour gardening sessions immensely and eagerly look forward to them. The program naturally varies from week to week, depending on the seasons, vagaries of the weather and tasks needing attention.
Being such a “hands-on” activity, gardening can be exhausting and satisfying both physically and mentally… and therein lies the reason why Cath’s Therapeutic Gardening Program has been, and still is, an absolute winner and a Godsend for me…
A very big thank-you Cath.
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© cath manuel march 2012
