Health & wellbeing
through gardens & nature

By growing friendships, motor skills and confidence, we weed out anxiety and feelings of isolation.

Lemon Balm gets people gardening through structured programmes that achieve results. We not only create capable gardeners, we also help develop social skills, improve mobility, increase agility, and meet other agreed outcomes.

Learn about our approach

We get people gardening

We run sessions

We deliver weekly gardening sessions tailored to the needs of the group, working towards outcomes agreed with you.

We create gardens

We design accessible, therapeutic gardens that are easier to manage and more suited to therapeutic horticulture activity.

We train & advise

We can help you increase or measure the health and wellbeing outcomes of your gardening or outdoor programmes.

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We believe nature is essential for wellbeing, that gardening is good for body and mind

This idea drives our work. It’s a belief that’s rational and evidence-based, shaped by academic research as well as our own experience.

Gardening is good for the mind

Gardening makes you feel good. Understanding the needs of a garden helps us understand our own needs.

Gardening is good for the body

Our work is carefully tailored to get people active, whatever their level of fitness and mobility.

There’s more to a successful garden than seeds, soil & water

Lemon Balm is led by professionals with qualifications in social and therapeutic horticulture, garden design, forest schools and volunteer management.

Trained by Occupational Therapists, our approach and outcomes are evidence-based and rigorous.

Our approach is proven

We’ve been putting our ideas into practice since 2015. See the case studies below to find out more about what we’ve done.

Case study 1: Love Meanwood project Case study 2: Mistress lane project

90%

of people who attended our pilot programme in Leeds said their mood had improved as a result of our work.

Drop us a line to find out more

We work with people across Leeds and Yorkshire – from private care homes and community groups, PTAs and schools, to allotment associations, community centres, charities and individuals. We also provide consultations to charitable and community groups to support fundraising to make projects happen.

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Contact us

You can email us at isabel@lemonbalm.org.uk or call us on 07595 471 597.