Recovery & Growth in a Dye Garden
By Emma Martindale, May 2022 Note: A Spanish version of this blog is available here. Let me introduce you to Emma Martindale, a horticultural therapy practitioner I met in Edinburgh…
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A Daily Dose of Good News…
As a Valuable Mental Health Benefit Sometimes it feels like there is simply no good news in the world. Since March of 2020, those times seem to occur more frequently. A…
A Psychotherapist’s Account: HT Interventions in Times of Crisis
Using HT for Mental Health in Puerto Rico By Pedro Arocho Soto Pedro J.Arocho Soto is a Doctoral Intern in Clinical Psychology at the Hospital (psychiatric) Metropolitano de la Montaña…
Rewild Your Connection With Nature
In our technology-driven existence, the natural world is too often managed as a commodity, something to be manipulated and exploited for profit. This attitude has become so ingrained in our…
Horticultural Therapy Improves Quality of Life in Geriatric Institutions
By Maria Cecilia Esposito Let me introduce you to Maria Cecilia Esposito from Mar del Plata, Argentina. She is an agricultural engineer from the University of Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina…
Dormancy: Nature’s Answer to the Dark Days of Winter
The Flipside of Winter The winter solstice, for many of us, brings about feelings of melancholy, deprivation, a sense of loss. Here in the northern hemisphere, we are in the…
Child Development in Ecuador
Horticultural Therapy Visible Worldwide By Cecilia Viteri Let me to introduce you to Cecilia Viteri, a clinical psychologist from Ecuador whom I met in 2019. Cecilia works at the Institute…
AHTA Conference
Platform of Collaboration Climate change and Horticultural therapy? This topic and many others were on the minds of the collaborative virtual symposium in late October. The American Horticultural Therapy Association-AHTA,…
“Huerta Modelo”
Community Garden for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities By: Constanza Sabogal & Manuela Menéndez Let me introduce you to Constanza Sabogal Lagomarsino, horticultural therapist and Manuela Menéndez, occupational and horticultural therapist,…
Your Garden…Diversity in Action
Cultivating Diversity Your garden, with quiet confidence offers many lessons that are symbolic of life’s struggles and successes. It is broadly accepted as an example of resiliency but also displays…