Overview: Natural Happiness can help you dig deep and stay cheerful in these stormy times. It shows how you can use gardening methods such as composting, mulching, and crop rotation to cultivate human nature, too.

A gardener applies skills like observation, patience and creativity - and you can adapt them to deal with daily stresses and big issues such as climate change.

Alan’s approach is positive and practical, easy to use for gardeners and others. Natural Happiness explores Alan’s Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness, which grows from 30 years’ experience of helping people learn from nature, and from creating gardens and an organic farm.

Verdict: A book that had me engrossed from the very first chapter onward, and one that takes a wholly different stance to our levels of obtaining happiness throughout over lives that I have personally seen/read in many a year, author Alan Heeks’ simply superbly honed Natural Happiness: Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself is a book I can heartily recommend to anyone who is having second thoughts about their lives, the direction it is taking, or even deeper than that, what their life is worth.

Based on decades of hands-on experiences, we get entwined gardening strategies with mindful exercises that come together in a way that are proven, yes proven to introduce improvement to your overall state of wellbeing.

Indeed, if you want an even better diving board on which to spring into this book from, try this. Alan asks that if you wanted to improve your life by growing just the one solitary thing, what would you choose? His answer, Yourself! And my goodness, is that not just the most perfect of responses to a question that your mind would never have gone to ordinarily before having been introduced to this marvelous book!

Thus here in Natural Happiness, Alan details how we can restore happiness within our everyday lives, but moreover, we also get to physically cultivate our gardens. Well, ok, both mentally and physically, I should stress, as if we tend to the physical one we soon notice the essentials - soil, sun, air, compost, and water - that once we have made small adjustments to our mental vibrancy linked towards the physical, both the garden and our own mental happiness can grow equally; as we tend to, and fix, everything that is ailing those specific areas.

Broken down into seven chapters - Nourish Your Roots, Use natural Energy Sources, Compost Your Troubles, Shaping Uncertainty: The Co-operative way, Cultivating Community, and both Growing through Climate Change and Natural Inspiration - the book is dedicated to Mother Earth, Gaia, who nourishes our bodies and souls, with a hope that humanity realizes its oneness with all life, and that we grow through this together.

About the Author - Alan Heeks is a group leader, author and pioneer who has over 30 years’ experience helping people to grow their wellbeing through contact with Nature. He left a successful business career to set up a 130-acre organic farm and education centre, and the Seeding our Future project, which helps individuals, local communities and NHS doctors to build resilience in the face of climate change and other stresses. Alan and his wife, Linda, are keen gardeners, and grow much of their food in their garden at home.

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