Curative Care Network is a non-profit serving children and adults with disabilities at seven locations in southeastern Wisconsin. As its mission statement reads, “Curative Care Network improves the function and…
The French association Jardins et Santé (Gardens and Health) last month organized its fourth conference on gardens in healthcare settings. As the French Minister of Ecology had just declared on…
When he retires next month, Dominique Marboeuf will leave a transformed landscape in the French psychiatric hospital where he has worked as the head gardener for the last 40 years.…
Many of the children who get off the school bus at Elkus Ranch have never been on a farm before. Many of them can’t tell a sheep from a goat…
Fifteen years ago, Phyllis Meole and others created the Ability Garden at the New Hanover County Arboretum in Wilmington, North Carolina. After several years of experience as an HT in…
For the past five years, Jacqui Mehring has worked full time as an activity and horticultural therapist in a Behavioral Medicine Unit at Cone Health Systems (formerly Alamance Regional Medical…
Fifteen years after the pioneering Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations by Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, here comes an updated and revised version that provides new research,…
Fifteen years after the pioneering Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations by Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, here comes an updated and revised version that provides new research,…
After 21 years as a horticultural therapist at Wesley Woods Hospital, a geriatric facility in Atlanta, Georgia, Kirk Hines is moving on. “It is not that they did not value…
The Pauchard family has been in the plant business for four generations and about 100 years, first running a nursery before adding landscaping and now therapeutic gardens to their activities.…