Gardening as Medicine for Mental Health

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The garden is the bridge.

For clients of The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, one way to connect with the surrounding community is through gardening.

Atullya Singh, CAMH Garden Co-ordinator, talks about the Sunshine Garden, located at the main hospital site in downtown Toronto.

When neighbours drop by for the weekly market where CAMH clients sell produce grown on site, Singh considers it as an opportunity to make…