Eight times a 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, who provides 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 adaptations: container gardening and use of raised beds. These techniques raise the soil level to keep the plants within easy reach from a wheelchair or scooter.