Health Benefits of Gardening

Participants will receive a hands-on art activities intervention consisting of two art activities sessions each week lasting approximately 60 minutes each in duration for four weeks for a total of eight sessions. Art activities will include hand papermaking, image transfer, visual storytelling, linocut printmaking, paper batik, mixed media collage, and sensation drawing based activities. Participants will complete sets of self-report psychometric assessments before, during, and following the art intervention. Heart rate and blood pressure will be monitored before, during, and following completion of the art intervention.

Participants will receive a hands-on gardening intervention consisting of two gardening sessions each week lasting approximately 60 minutes each in duration for four weeks, for a total of eight sessions. Gardening activities will include planting seeds, bulbs and tubers, transplanting seedlings, vegetative propagation and sight, smell, taste and touch sensory based activities. Participants will complete sets of self-report psychometric assessments before, during, and following the gardening intervention. Heart rate and blood pressure will be monitored before, during, and following completion of the gardening intervention.