Horticultural therapy is blooming in North Carolina. This blog has already visited the programs of Christene Tashjian who works with sexual abuse victims and Sally Cobb whose work centers on…
Craig Hospital in Denver is a hospital specializing in the neuro-rehabilitation and research for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Since 1982, the hospital has…
Claire : “We did everything here.“ Loïck : “It’s great. I love to plant tomatoes, strawberries, turnips, radishes.“ “Le Jardin extraordinaire”, the name is a reference to a song by French…
Kyle Curtis recently sent an update on Outgrowing Hunger’s activities. He reminds us that while Portand is considered a foodie mecca, “The further east one goes from Portland’s urban core,…
A solution against patient confinement, this garden in a retirement home in the rural town of Saint-Geniez d’Olt in the South of France is the brainchild of a newly arrived psychologist,…
“I was raped when I was 19. Over the next four years, my life became increasingly unbearable until I finally became suicidal,” explained Iris at a fundraiser for the Orange…
“At the hour of your death, what would you rather be looking at? A wall, a television or a garden?” Sally Cobb has answered this rhetorical question by creating and…
As a landscape architect, Martine Brulé could not help noticing that the hospitals and retirement homes she was visiting were sorely lacking in landscaping and green spaces. This was in…
Terraform, a wheelchair-accessible planter box currently used in about a hundred retirement homes, rehab centers and public gardens in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, was a long time in the…
This is a first. Today, we are going to visit a French horticultural therapy program, an award-winning garden for people who have suffered brain injuries and strokes. About five years…