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Gardening4Kids is an award winning initiative which was launched in April 2012. Since then we have worked with parents, their children, nurseries, schools, garden centres, play centres and, even a theatre group, in Aberdeen City and Shire.

Gardening4Kids was created by its proprietor Joanne Evans. The idea grew whilst she retrained as a garden designer and also started her own family. The aim of Gardening4Kids is to encourage children’s interest in gardening early on and give them invaluable basic life skills and an understanding of the world around them. Through gardening they learn where their food comes from develop a healthy attitude to eating fruit and vegetables.

Joanne qualified as a garden designer in 2009 with an HNC Garden Design with distinction from Scotland’s Rural College in Aberdeen. To complement this she also studied at Aberdeen College for the RHS 2 Certificate in Horticulture in 2007.

In a former life I worked for the BBC for nearly 20 years. I retrained as a garden designer in 2011. I am interested in the benefits of gardening for health and well being and I am a field worker for Trellis, Scotland’s therapeutic gardening charity. I also have achieved the Award in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture through Thrive.  She also runs her own garden design company Gerbera Designs.