After her stroke, Patty Ericson-Taylor wasn’t sure she’d ever return to gardening. Today, she’s back tending her deck, raised beds, and lower garden, growing vegetables, herbs, and even pumpkins.

In this video, Patty shares the tools and simple adaptations that help her garden with confidence again, including roll-up raised beds, a seated garden cart, seed tape for easier planting, adaptive pruners, reachers for hard-to-access produce, and a strain-free hose wand.

She also highlights how she enriches her soil with natural materials like seaweed and explains how growing her own food keeps her connected to what she loves, cooking healthy meals from her garden.

For more content about adaptive gardening, visit the NCHPAD Adaptive Gardening Series webpage!