A Rooftop Garden in a French Clinic
Macadam Gardens is a young start-up out of Toulouse, France that started out selling organic gardening products online and later decided to create vegetable gardens for companies. “By taking over…
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HTI Director Rebecca Haller Receives AHTA Award
By Susan Morgan Congratulations to Rebecca Haller, HTM, director of the Horticultural Therapy Institute, for being the 2015 co-recipient of the Rhea McCandliss Professional Service Award by the American Horticultural…
Japan finds inspiration in the US
Masahiro Toyoda is an academic who is considered one of Japan’s foremost experts on horticultural therapy. A professor at Hyogo University, he practices and leads research in horticultural therapy. Toyoda…
Pacific Quest Takes an Innovative Approach to Wilderness Therapy
By Susan Morgan Photos courtesy of Travis Slagle, Pacific Quest Located on 13+ acres on the big island of Hawaii with 180-degree views of the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Quest is…
Raising awareness about therapeutic gardens in landscaping schools
In France, the Truffaut Foundation has become an important supporter of therapeutic gardens and a go-to player for many starting a project. As a gardening chain with roots going back nearly…
Horticultural Therapy Connects with Youth at the Mental Health Center of Denver
By Susan Morgan Photos courtesy of Carol LaRocque When Carol LaRocque, LPC, HTR, began working at the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) four years ago, she balanced her caseload…
Welcome Susan Morgan
HTI welcomes our new co-blogger, Susan Morgan, to the “On the Ground” blog. She will work with longtime blog contributor Isabelle Boucq to continue featuring articles on a variety of…
In Canada, Forget for a moment fights for nature in hospitals
When she launched her crusade to bring nature to hospital waiting rooms, Jeannine Lafrenière knew all about waiting in hospitals. After she was diagnosed with basal-cell carcinoma, a type of…
A garden blooms in a French nursing home
The nursing home in Onzain in the Loire River valley is lucky. Not only it is located a stone’s throw away from Chaumont-sur-Loire, the site of the International Festival of…
Scottish association Trellis seeks to unite HT practitioners in Europe
After working for Thrive, THE social and therapeutic horticulture association in England, Fiona Thackeray founded Trellis, a Scottish association that has made its mission to “support health through horticulture.” “We…