A therapeutic garden beside a motorway services aims to boost volunteers' mental health.
The garden will be created on the site of a disused caravan park near the service stationKendal-based charity Growing Well has received planning permission to create the garden to supply Tebay Services with organic produce.
The charity said gardening benefitted vulnerable people struggling with their mental health by teaching them skills.The Westmorland Family, which runs three service stations including Tebay, has donated £150,000 to the scheme and the National Lottery Community Fund is giving £180,000 over two years.
A spokeswoman for the organisation said: "Work will be starting very soon on the now disused static caravan park, transforming it into a kitchen garden, under the supervision of experienced therapeutic growers and mental health support staff."They will then be cooked and served to customers just a few hundred metres from where they are grown."Image caption,
The organic garden will be created just a few hundred yards from Tebay Services' farm shop and kitchen
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