The Ability Garden in Wilmington, NC
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…
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Plants Soothe Patients in a Crisis
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…
New book ‘Therapeutic Landscapes’ is required reading for HT
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,…
‘Therapeutic Landscapes’ should be required reading
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,…
Experienced HTR starts new program in geriatric care facility in Atlanta
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…
French landscape company starts Terramie, a therapeutic garden franchise
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.…
Tale of two gardens at the Life Enrichment Center in Shelby, NC
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…
Rehabilitation HT at Craig Hospital in Denver
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…
Struggling middle schoolers build their “Extraordinary Garden”
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…
Portland garden promotes food justice
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,…