This is the 20 Year Anniversary of Healing Gardens!

A Sanctuary for Healing, Growth and Balance

On all the scheduled Sunday openings in 2025 we will celebrate Healing Gardens
as a path to wellness with special events!

2025 Sundays in the Gardens:

5/11, 6/8, 7/13, 8/10, 9/14, 10/12

Choices for Visits: 

1. Healing Gardens is Open to the Public from May through October the second Sunday of the month from 11 AM to 4 PM.
No need to make a reservation.

2. Any other time, text (preferred) or Call 630-740-2597 to make a reservation from April 1 to November 30. 

• Sunday May 11: A free perennial to all who attend while supplies last.

• Sunday June 8: “Mini Forest Bathing” from 11:30am to 12:30pm guided by Tammy Minuti (ANFT) and Emmi McAdams (ANFT).

• Sunday July 13:  “Sound Bath for the Body and Heart” from 2:00 to 2:30pm (after Yoga in the Gardens) Join Alyce Kass and enjoy a unique sound  experience  incorporating  meditative instruments and voice.

• Sunday August 10: “Mantra Meditation” from 11:30am to 12:30pm  Join Harmony Pavett and Muriel Reymond for a sonic meditation through Raga Mantras in the serene outdoor setting of the Healing Gardens. Let the summer breeze carry you through this deeply immersive Mantra Meditation journey to help harmonize your inner and outer worlds.

• Sunday September 14: “Free Flower Bouquets” Pick your own small flower bouquet - jars and scissors provided.  The Threshold Choir of Wheaton will move about the gardens singing
  a capella songs of comfort, gratitude, hope, peace and love, from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Their gentle voices bring ease and comfort to all who listen.

• Sunday October 12: “Free Iris Clumps and Seed Collection” Fall is the time to divide and plant iris - visitors are also welcome to take seeds from various perennials. The Threshold Choir of Wheaton will return  moving about the gardens singing a capella songs of comfort, gratitude, hope, peace and love, from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Their gentle voices bringing ease and comfort to all who listen.

Sacred Box Elder Tree

Sacred box elder tree, you are old and gnarled. Severely pruned last year of dead limbs you are misshapen in your form, no longer a symmetrical beauty, yet, you have a presence with your massive lengthy trunk and thick limbs stretching upward and outward with pruned blunt ends. You still have a solid, graceful, strength with your branches spread wide and open as if to praise the heavens for your existence and to welcome whoever decides to nestle into the soft woven tree swings hanging from your strong branches.

Sacred box elder

Still teaching me about life

Welcoming me home.

~ Deborah Marqui

New eBook

Healing Gardens: Where the Soul Is Tended   is a short eBook that was recently published.
It is available through Amazon for $2.99 and can be streamed through any preferred device.

To My Readers: 

Upon reading Healing Gardens: Where the Soul is Tended you will discover the motivation and my compelling commitment to share the experience of Healing Gardens with others.

But what was the reason behind the creation of Healing Gardens at Stone Hill Farm?

I invite you to read the whole story from the beginning in my newly published memoir, 
From the Fire Into the Garden: A Healing Journey.

The Memoir

“In this profoundly intimate and soul-baring memoir, Deborah Marqui reveals how her tenacious journey through cancer transcended her physical healing.  At its heart, From the Fire into the Garden: A Healing Journey reaffirms in compelling fashion the power of faith, family, friends, self-compassion & surrender to the grace of God and the healing power of Nature in the face of suffering…  By the time you finish soaking up her story, you will have a sense that Deb has invited you to sit with her as she takes in the beauty of her Healing Gardens.” - Jim Otepka, LMFT, Psychotherapist, Former Director of Tri City Family Services

Deborah writes in her memoir: “I came across the body of a chickadee on our deck that looked dead; yet, as I reached down to move the little bird there was a tiny heartbeat. I waited and watched as it regained consciousness and flew away... Humans, like myself, need to be stunned sometimes to wake up to the beauty and gift that surrounds them."