This nine minute reminiscence therapy download clip will take you into a traditional rural garden. There you will see all the different fruit, flowers and vegetables that we used to grow in our farm garden when I was a boy. The skills of gardening were passed down from one generation to the next. Here are some of the things you will see in the clip.
• Listen to Don speaking about his new tatties
• See the garden in its best summer condition with all the produce growing naturally
• The importance of the garden to rural life.
• Learning from the older generation was practiced
• Tatties were the main crop.
• See the tattie pit being made
• Hear some of the birds singing
• Identify the plants grown
• How the produce was used by the family
• The fruit bushes can be seen
• Gardening practices identified.
• See the strawberry beds and how the berries were made into jam.
• Memories of the garden.
• See the bumble bees working in the garden
• The blackbird was an annual nesting bird in the garden
• How gardening can impact positively on our health
• The garden as a therapy
The garden was a place where all the family contributed to its success and where life time learning took place.