In spring, my news feeds are awash with gardening top-ten lists and how-to tips and tricks, running the gamut from when to pinch off your seedlings to easier ways to thin carrot patches. All of them inspire me to run to my local garden center to blanket my garden in blooms and vegetable bounty, but rarely have I seen a list of how to garden when facing mobility and pain issues. Over the last four years I’ve had to greatly modify my approach and expectations towards my yearly garden plan as my rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis have advanced, but…
Author: Joy Hanford
Joy Hanford
Joy Hanford is a Midwestern American writer and artist who happens to live in Northern Portugal. When she was a little girl, she knew exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up then she forgot then she remembered. She spends her week filling pages in her sketchbook with stories and adventures, and her weekends searching for dragons hiding in castle corners. You can follow her diagnosis journey through conversations she had with her son on her now archived blog project: www.conversationswithhank.com.