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Should gardening be prescribed on the NHS?

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Gardening for therapy? The hobby can help people with physical and mental health problems. Jane Garvey talks to Mary Berry, Dr Sam Everington, a GP in Tower Hamlets who helped set up Bob's Park, in The Bromley by Bow Centre and Tara, member of gardening group Sage Greenfingers in Sheffield. First broadcast on Woman's Hour, 13 June 2016.

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