Office Medicine Garden
Daily engagement with living plants will transform your work experience and provide lasting mental health benefits for you and your team.
Benefits of the Herbs
How Does it Work?
Our Team provides one or more plants per employee along with training, communication, and evaluation. Your three month subscription includes replacement plants if needed. We will meet with your staff (virtually or in-person) to describe how to interact with the garden and we will measure staff mental health and well-being before garden installation and every 6 weeks, or as desired.
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Your Team will receive a daily reminder to smell and connect with the plant(s). Employees are encouraged to share feedback throughout the process and will receive ongoing care tips and open access to our team for questions or concerns.
Why Does it Work?
Biophillic Design is the architecture principle which focuses on the creation of human habitats that satisfy the instrinsic need for beneficial contact with the natural world. Incorporating living plants and multi-sensory nature interaction into our built environemnts has been shown to benefit worker health and productivity.
Attention Restoration Theory and Stress Recovery Theory have shown that natural stimuli refresh and restore the senses, eliciiting positive emotions, improving cognitive function, and decreasing stress. Due to the innate positive response humans have to natural environments, the greater levels of stress we have when viewing a natural scene, the greater the stress-reducing response.
Aromatherapy, including the fragrant, inorganic volatile compounds found in houseplants, has been shown to decrease cortisol (stress hormone) and reported depression and increase the release of endorphins and feelings of optimism.