Search for Research
How to Use Google Scholar to Support Your Garden & Nature Programming

In this video workshop, you'll learn how to cite relevant research to strengthen your program proposals, whether you’re seeking employment, approval for a new program, or fundraising for a garden. Sharing research findings with decision-makers makes it more likely you'll get a positive response!

What you'll get:

  • 60 minutes of recorded video
  • a 15-page Google workbook & guide
  • any future content that I add to this workshop

What you'll see:

I share my screen as I demonstrate by example how you can confidently search in Google Scholar for recent rigorous research that’s relevant to your participant group and to the garden and nature intervention you (wish to) facilitate. 


The workbook and guide has space to record your searches, and provides shortcuts for searching common participant groups, interventions and outcomes.


What people are saying:
Lynn Leach
Horticultural Therapist & Landscape Designer,
Bird's Foot Design Studio, Ontario, Canada

"I just completed a proposal where my client asked for some evidence-based studies to go along with the programs and garden design that I have recommended for them. Your very practical and thorough presentation, along with the extremely helpful 'research guide' was invaluable. I was able to provide some amazing resources to this prospective client with very little difficulty - something I don't think I would have been confident doing before your talk."

Will you feel more confident searching for research?

After the live workshop, 52% of attendees were "way more confident and excited about the possibilities", and an additional 33% were "a lot more confident". *


That's a total of 85% of attendees feeling much more confident about searching for research on Google Scholar. Wow!

How might you use the research you find?

Attendees* said they would like to:

  • fundraise for a garden or greenspace (50% of attendees)
  • fundraise for a program (65%)
  • validate your program to your manager, colleague or clients (75%)
  • find the most effective way to deliver your program (75%)


*Based on polls at the 2023 Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association's online conference.


Your nature muse: Shelagh Smith, HTR, MAEEC

Shelagh inspires healthcare professionals to engage with nearby nature for self-care, and to share this evidence-based practice with their peeps for health promotion and therapeutic intervention. 


She's a professionally registered Horticultural Therapist with the CHTA in Canada and the AHTA in the United States, and holds a Masters degree in Environmental Education and Communication.

For 23 years, Shelagh developed and led therapeutic garden programs for care home residents, while supervising and mentoring many students and volunteers. She taught people with mental health challenges how to grow their own food, collaborated on the design of restorative and enabling gardens, and gave 100+ live multi-media presentations and workshops to healthcare, community, and professional organizations. 


Vancouver, Canada is her local nature playground, and she loves to travel on the back roads of British Columbia with her husband and their tiny Trillium trailer.

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