NFGS Seminars 2021 | 1 - Green social prescribing and forest gardens

Why Forest Gardens are great for well-being. Horticulture therapy, salutogenic effects of green social prescribing. The added benefits of forest gardens within this context.

Sharing experience from practitioners/prescribers.

Elizabeth Westaway

Elizabeth is a practitioner, researcher and consultant in academia, non-governmental organisations and the United Nations on health, nutrition, food security and agriculture projects. Elizabeth is passionate about restoring soil health, producing nutrient-dense food, preventing malnutrition in all its forms including diet-related non-communicable diseases, community-based nutrition, healthy and sustainable diets, sustainable food systems, food security, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, livelihoods, poverty reduction and forest gardens. She will be discussing the rationale for green social prescribing – the ‘why’.

David Wickstead

Facilitator

Richard Luff is a director of NFGS, and also works as a water and sanitation engineer working internationally on disaster strategy, evaluation and response. Until recently he was a trustee of Bridewell Organic gardens, a horticultural mental health recovery charity, and is also one of the founder of Marston Forest Garden in Oxford.