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Hundreds of Don Herrs plants live on in gardens through the region, their blooms continuing to delight even as they last for just one day.

The Grandview Heights Schools district has hired an architecture firm to provide professional design services for the districts athletics complex across Third Avenue from the high school.

Faizal Farook investigates the relationship between Britain’s diverse ethnic-minority communities and the country’s natural spaces

Faizal Farook investigates the relationship between Britain’s diverse ethnic-minority communities and the country’s natural spaces

Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts According to a report published earlier in the year by The Wall Street Journal, walking in nature comes with a range of added benefits. "Spending time in the woods—a practice the Japanese call forest bathing—is strongly linked to lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones and decreased anxiety, depression and fatigue," observed the WSJ. And given that nature is...

‘There’s something hugely freeing about being in open space.’ Illustration: Eva Bee/The Observer ‘There’s something hugely freeing about being in open space.’ Illustration: Eva Bee/The Observer Outdoor therapy can help people to become reflective and their body language while moving gives clues to their feelings Sat 17 Apr 2021 12.00 EDT Covid has transformed the way many of us work and that includes the people who look after our mental health. For much of lockdown, psychotherapists...

Image courtesy of The Community Farm In the UK, where the Black Lives Matter movement coalesced with a pandemic-provoked appreciation for green space and local food for all, questions of unequal land access and ownership are becoming impossible to ignore. Ursula Billington reports on some urban farms opening their gates to inclusion. The statistics speak for themselves: in England, 1% of the population owns 50% of the land. 98.6% of farm managers and holders are White-British. Just 3.5% of envi...