natural happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself

Natural Happiness can help you dig deep and stay cheerful in these stormy times. It shows how you can use gardening methods such as composting, mulching, and crop rotation to cultivate human nature, too. A gardener applies skills like observation, patience and creativity - and you can adapt them to deal with daily stresses and big issues such as climate change. Alan’s approach is positive and practical, easy to use for gardeners and others. Natural Happiness explores Alan’s Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness, which grows from 30 years’ experience of helping people learn from nature, and from creating gardens and an organic farm.

Alan Heeks is a group leader, author and pioneer who has over 30 years’ experience helping people to grow their wellbeing through contact with Nature. He left a successful business career to set up a 130-acre organic farm and education centre, and the Seeding our Future project, which helps individuals, local communities and NHS doctors to build resilience in the face of climate change and other stresses. Alan and his wife, Linda, are keen gardeners, and grow much of their food in their garden at home.