Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping

Landmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds

Jan 6, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 5 · Episode 1 · 59.7 MB
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Gardening for the Blind

Christine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Keller Centre, which serves the deaf-blind community. 


They talk about:

  • Using landmarks in the garden
  • Colours for low-vision gardeners
  • Spatial awareness in the garden
  • Visual memory


Bird Gardening

Steven Price, past president of Bird Studies Canada, talks about how to attract birds to gardens and how to make gardens bird-friendly.


He talks about:

  • Plants
  • Features (e.g. water features)
  • Feed