GARDENFIT

Travel to an English-style garden in Washington, Connecticut, and the same gardener’s Mediterranean-style desert garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, California. The gardener learns “do anywhere” exercises that help him walk tall.

Marfa, Texas, is home to a unique desert garden created by one of the foremost experts on native plants throughout Texas and the Southwest. His daily chores take a toll on his shoulders and flexibility, which is reduced by a new stretch routine.

A gardener in Carp Lake, Michigan, who heads a traditional Native American Garden, continues the work of her ancestors by planting three sister vegetables. Struggling to find time for recreation, she learns how to make her lifestyle the solution.

Enjoy a topiary forest in Richmond, Massachusetts, surrounded by beautiful hedge gardens, imaginative potted-plant combinations and a dramatic stumpery. Back pain caused by endless clipping is relieved with simple turns and a new daily habit.

An enchanting garden in Middleburg, Virginia, features a surprising combination of botanical rooms including English borders, formal gardens, and a French parterre. Find out how simple counter movements relieve rotational pain.

At an 8,000-square-foot vegetable and fruit paradise in Rancho Santa Fe, California, a vegetarian gardener’s goal is to grow all the food he wants to eat and make a lifelong fitness plan.

Take a walk with an energetic 95-year-old through her charming garden in Peapack, New Jersey. Harvesting vegetables and flowers daily, she has few physical issues but gets advice to improve her sure-footedness and balance.

Come to Kelseyville, California, and join the harvest fun at the largest saffron farm in North America, which also grows vegetables and flowers for the community. See how the gardeners get relief from back pain caused by harvesting at ground level.

A prairie-style garden created from scratch in Fort Collins, Colorado, features carefully placed boulders, native plants, and over 200 trees and shrubs. Learn how simple exercises alleviate wrist and leg pain caused by propagation and planting.

Tour a Miami, Florida tropical habitat surrounding a newly renovated urban office building and private residence. See how a strength training routine enables a gardener to maintain his body to achieve his life goals.

Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg, New York focuses on food sovereignty and using African traditional techniques that respect the land. Its gardener learns to ease her foot-and-lower-back pain by paying better attention to range of motion.

Enjoy an inspiring Japanese garden in Roxbury, Connecticut, a place for spiritual relaxation that uses the epic principles of Yin and Yang to relieve knee discomfort and promote pain-free weeding.