Researchers at the University of Essex have been carrying out a study to show just how hard people work in the garden as they carry out certain tasks. Volunteers at the Together We Grow Garden in Colchester were fitted with equipment usually used to measure athletes as they pushed themselves to the limit.
The research has been welcomed by the team at Together We Grow CIC, which operates from a two-acre edible garden and orchard site within High Woods Country Park. Founder Wayne Setford said: “If we can ensure that gardening is labelled as something that is much more active, there’s more versatility to the range of funding we can achieve [from] those big funders that do support sports and physical activity.”
Dr Robert Southall-Edwards has lead the study since November and also happens to be one of the Active Essex’s incoming Senior Researchers who will be starting next week!
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