Gardens 4 Joy is an initiative at Queen’s University that aims to help foster the wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff through gardens and gardening. Based on her research and decades of experience creating and savouring gardens, Dr. Maha Al Makhamreh founded this initiative and successfully implemented it in the spring of 2024. Thanks to a big team of believers in positive change, the initiative went above and beyond and continues to thrive.

In her workshops, Maha combines her research with her lived experience to provoke powerful questions, meaningful reflections, and deeper thinking about flourishing gardens and flourishing people.

See Maha’s Nurturing Gardens art piece at the Queen’s Imagines the Future Festival here:

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You can see some pictures of Maha’s family gardens on her personal Instagram page: [maha_gardens]