Eight times per year, DIGA members gather at local botanical gardens or horticultural and community centres for educational and interactive workshops. Each workshop is led by an expert guest speaker drawn from the professional gardening community, providing insight into plants, techniques and garden design. Instruction is tailored specially for people with physical disabilities and includes:

• Creating a barrier-free garden
  Getting to, from and around garden areas. This includes path width and material, grading, convenience of watering supply, etc.
  
  

• Use of containers, raised beds, and other enabling structures
  Members are introduced to the most important adaptation: container gardening and use of raised beds. These techniques raise the soil level to keep the plants within easy reach.

Using adapted garden tools & devices Workshop participants become familiar with adapted tools and other equipment, which can be custom made to their specific requirements. Gardening information Members consider selection, nurturing and care of garden items. We consider plant height, colour, fragrance, and location. Hot topics Lectures on organic gardening, hands-on planter creation and creation of seasonally specific displays.