For workplaces
You're paying for an EAP. About 4% of your people use it.
We run an eight-week wellbeing program with the opposite problem: people actually do it. Each participant rescues a dying plant from a retail clearance rack and brings it back to health.
How it works
Adopt a clearance-rack plant
Each volunteer picks a half-dead plant off a retail clearance rack. Roughly $8 a head.
Scan it, get a recovery plan
The app reads the plant, gives a salvageability verdict and a specific 48-hour triage plan.
Eight weeks of small daily care
Ten minutes a week, a photo now and then, a care log. No group therapy, no vulnerability tax.
A written outcome report for you
Participation, completion, and pre/post change on validated stress and wellbeing measures.
How many people should join?
However many you can get. There is no minimum and no cap — five people is a real pilot, and so is two hundred. We would rather start small with people who want to be there than fill a quota.
5+
Enough to run
A single small team works. We will not turn down a pilot for being small.
8–15
What research suggests
The cohort size most group horticultural studies use, and where the group effect shows up.
Many
No ceiling
Large sites run as several cohorts at once, with one coordinator per site.
Where the research lands: group horticultural programs in the published trials are usually run in small cohorts of roughly eight to fifteen people meeting over six to twelve weeks, which is the shape we copy. Bigger groups just run as several cohorts side by side.
The offer
- $0 cost to you
- 8 weeks start to report
- Any cohort size, one site
- ~2 hours of your team's time
- No IT or procurement
What you get
- A turnkey program: we run it, you host it.
- A written week-8 outcome report covering participation, completion, and pre/post change on validated stress and wellbeing measures.
- Anonymized participant quotes and before/after photos.
- A concrete data point for your benefits committee.
What we need
- One named coordinator, about two hours across eight weeks.
- A 30-minute kickoff slot, lunch-and-learn format.
- Permission to survey volunteers at week 0 and week 8.
- Roughly $8 per person for plants — and if that's a blocker, we cover it.
Why plants
Horticultural therapy significantly reduced psychological stress versus controls in a 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis.
Lu, Liu, Xu & Xu, Frontiers in Psychology 14:1086121.A plant-transplanting task lowered sympathetic nervous system activity and diastolic blood pressure compared with a computer task, in a randomized crossover study.
Lee, Lee, Park & Miyazaki, Journal of Physiological Anthropology 34:21 (2015).Adding plants to sparse offices was associated with roughly 15% higher productivity across three field experiments.
Nieuwenhuis, Knight, Postmes & Haslam, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 20(3), 199–214 (2014).These studies involve modest sample sizes and short follow-up windows, and our pilot is an evaluation, not a controlled trial.
What we will and won't do with your people's data
- This is a wellbeing activity, not clinical care — no diagnosis, no treatment, no PHI, no clinician.
- Participation is voluntary and opt-in.
- Individual survey responses go to us and are never shown to the employer.
- Employers receive aggregate figures only, and we suppress any statistic drawn from fewer than eight people.
- The program sits alongside an existing EAP; it does not replace it or substitute for professional care.
Questions we always get
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Apply for a pilot
Six fields. We read every one of these ourselves.