Holiday Gift Guide


For Gardeners with Arthritis

Pamper your favorite gardener this holiday season with thoughtful gifts that will help build the Pillars of Strength to keep them gardening for many seasons to come!

I’ve compiled a special list of 18 gift ideas for your special gardener.


1. Vego Garden Raised Bed From $160 These sustainable, zinc-coated raised beds are a welcome addition or beginning for any gardener! If arthritis has you feeling limited, this raised bed is a perfect solution.


2. Ratcheting Pruners $39.95 These ratcheting pruners make cutting woody branches a breeze even when you have arthritis! Make your tools do the work for you not your hands!


3. Red Pig Tools Diamond Hoe $40 make quick work of weeds with high quality, sharp tools! I have the stand up version and also this hand-held version for my raised beds and pots.


4. Vivo Sun Grow Bags $20 These light weight 10 gallon grow bags are the perfect size to be substantial enough to grow a tomato or squash, but light enough to still move around with the convenient handles. A set of five bags is a good way to get a moveable garden started!


5. Kuru Tread Sandals $101 The most important tool in the gardening with arthritis toolbox is great footwear. Gardeners are on their feet all day and their shoes need to support arthritic backs and knees! I use these sandals everyday, all summer in the garden and they never let me down!


6. Hose Link Retractable Hose Reel $195 The Hose Link retractable hose reel is a great tool for gardeners with arthritis! Not only does it make watering easy, but it keeps your garden tidy and free from tangled hoses to trip over. I have two of these strategically placed on my 1.5 acre garden and they never disappoint! One of my best garden tool investments!


7. Bellicon Rebounder from $510 Both a fitness and therapeutic device, benefits of bouncing your way to better health can be found with this one fun device! Improve joint health, get more fit and relaxed! Get your body more fit for more gardening!


8. Arthritis Adventure Blueprint $347 If your gardener has wanted fitness for the new year but doesn’t know where to start because of arthritis pain then this Physical Therapist designed program specifically for sufferers of osteoarthritis is the place to start! Let Dr. Alyssa Kuhn guide you safely to physical fitness for the new year ahead!


9. Seed Gift Certificate $$ Nutrition is an important Pillar of Strength to keep you gardening longer and there’s no more fun way to up your nutrition than by growing it yourself! Explore a world of nutritious foods to grow from seed in the Baker Creek heirloom seed catalog!


10. Grace and Able Compression Gloves $20 Compression gloves are like a warm hug for your hands after a hard days work in the garden!


11. The Tapping Solution $17 Another key pillar to gardening despite arthritis is managing your thinking about it. Tapping is a great tool to help you do this! Get the app for your phone.


12. Keeping It Real With Arthritis $20 Featuring over 100 worldwide, personal stories written by passionate and inspiring individuals living with arthritis, and their supporters; parents, caretakers, and medical professionals. Be inspired by others as you read their struggles and triumphs over arthritis!


13. Greenstalk Vertical Garden From $ 109 Planters that let you grow with ease anywhere! I like this design for its unique watering system and deep planting pockets. Grow nutritious greens and herbs year round!


14. Against All Grain $16 Learn how you can harness the power of nutrition in the war against autoimmune disease!


15. Nesco Food Dehydrator $100 use this food dehydrator to process garden herbs to help enhance your home grown nutrition


16. Stress Less Accomplish More $15 learn to meditate like a monk without dedicating your life to the task! Several studies show that mindfulness meditation is one of the most effective forms of meditation for arthritis.


17. Massage $$ A gift certificate for a single massage or a subscription for massage is always a welcome gift for gardeners, but especially for those with arthritis!Research suggests that massage can affect the body’s production of certain hormones linked to blood pressure, anxiety, heart rate and other key vital signs. Help your body heal with restorative, medical massage


18. CBD Oil $50 CBD oil has restorative properties that are just being discovered. It’s important to buy a quality product and Barlean’s has been pioneers in the nutritive oil industry for years. This oil can be taken internally, but I especially like to rub it directly onto aching, small joints of the hands and feet!