Giveaway Swellness: The winner of the Plant & Rake Without the Ache gardening toolkit

The green thumb (or soon to be green thumb!) who’s won the Plant and Rake Without the Ache gardening toolkit from the Ontario Chiropractors Association is @SS_ Summer — please email me at healthandswellness@gmail.com with your full name and mailing address so we can send out your prize.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Hope you have a lovely summer season of gardening!

Leave a Comment May 24, 2014

Healthy Giveaway Swellness: Win a Plant and Rake Without the Ache gardening toolkit

Spring is finally here! And green thumbs can get out into the garden and get your hand into the dirt!

But you might be a little rusty in the physical activity department. After all, winter was particularly brutal. I think we all felt like a member of the night’s watch on the Game of Thrones—it was that cold. So you may have hidden indoors rather than keeping active, which means that diving into days of digging, shoveling, bending and lifting could cause you some major pain if you’re not careful.

To help you get on the right track this season with your gardening, Ontario Chiropractic Association has given Health & Swellness a Plant and Rake Without the Ache Toolkit to give away! Valued at $100, it includes an asparagus (yum!) knife, a trowl, a three-prong cultivator, gardening sheers, gardening gloves, a watering can, gardening knee pads and seeds to plant, all prettily packaged up in a seagrass basket.

Sweet, right? Get your green thumb on this prize by entering this giveaway. You can enter once each of the four ways up until 11:50 EST on Thursday, May 22, 2014. Oh, and you must be a Canadian resident. Ready? Here’s how to enter:

1. Email. Email me at healthandswellness@gmail.com. Please include your mailing address and phone number, and put “gardening toolkit” in the subject line.
2. Instagram. Follow me on Instagram (I’m @healthandswellness) and then regram the Instagram photo I’ve posted for this giveaway with caption: A gardening toolkit from @healthandswellness and the Ontario Chiropractic Association will (fill in the blank). Fill in your reply with what you love to garden!
3. Facebook. Like the HealthandSwellness page on Facebook, and then reply to my post about this giveaway about why you love to garden.
4. Twitter: Follow me on Twitter (I’m @healthswellness) and then tweet: I love #gardening and want to win this #giveaway from @healthswellness. bit.ly/1sxammq

nd as long as you have the eye on the prize, there’s another prize you could win—wouldn’t a trip for two for a weekend spa getaway be nice? You can win that by liking the Ontario Chiropractic Assocation on Facebook (info on how to enter their contest is on their page).

If you can’t wait to get into your garden, be sure to follow these tips from the Ontario Chiropractic Association to help avoid back injuries:

• Switch up your tasks from heavy to light ones and change your hands and positions frequently.
• Lift with care. Bend your knees and keep your back straight. Carry the load close to your body.
• Get low by kneeling on pads or a mat to help ease the strain on your back when you plant or weed.
• When you rake, put one leg in front of the other and switch it every so often.

Got it? Here’s to a back pain-free season! Now go ahead and enter this giveaway!

1 Comment May 15, 2014

Giveaway Swellness: The winner of the gardening toolkit from the Ontario Chiropractic Association

Thanks to all of you green thumbs who entered this giveaway!  The lucky winner of the gardening toolkit is Maggie K.!

Stay tuned to Health & Swellness for more giveaways and, of course, posts about health, beauty, food and travel!

(Photo: Garden Exuberance)

2 Comments August 9, 2013