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Is your goal continued good health? It’s common knowledge that gardening is an all-around physical and mental health booster. Besides the pleasure and sense of achievement you receive, it also increases stamina, builds muscle tone and burns considerable calories!

For too many of us, however, gardening can put stress on our bodies, resulting in aches, pains and sore muscles. This terrific new book equips you with a multitude of great ideas to garden healthier – whether you want to optimize your fitness, avoid injury or lose calories. Leading garden designer and landscape architect, Bunny Guinness has teamed up with physiotherapist Pilates guru, Jacqueline Knox to give us the unprecedented guide to healthy gardening we’ve been waiting for. You’ll learn the safest, best ways to avoid injury when pushing a heavy wheelbarrow or lifting large pots; protection tips for knee, shoulder, neck, back and other “trouble spots.” Simple warm-up exercises to improve your core strength, balance, and flexibility are included. You’ll even find the best post-gardening stretches to soothe those overworked muscles.

Ever been overwhelmed by how many garden tools there are out there to select from? There’s seasoned advice on how to choose the best ergonomic tools and accessories for you – including that all-important lawn mower.

Good section on planning and executing gardens designed for your lifestyle and ability level. Learn how to grow healthy, easy-care fruits, veggies and natural healing herbs. Ideas for low-maintenance spaces and much more. 215 pgs. Paperback.

“As a lifelong gardener and proponent of regular excercise, I've been waiting for a book like this as long as I can remember! The authors do a magnificent job of relating the world of good health, and even the most reluctant gardener will find in this book reasons to break out the (ergonomic!) garden tools and get fit."
-Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Author of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden and The Well-Designed Mixed Garden, and triathlete.