Reading recommendations for the Horticultural Therapy Community
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September/October 2009 Edition
Garden Your Way to Health and Fitness (2008)
Authors: Bunny Guinness & Jacqueline Knox
Is your garden work doing [...]
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Malton Village long term care facility opens a new sustainable garden. The garden is part of a larger horticultural therapy program delivered by Horticultural Therapist, Tracy Ruffini. View the media release: A State of the Art Garden Opens at Malton Village
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As a new Home Farm Associate, I am pleased to announce that March marked the official launch of the Home Farm Horticultural Therapy Certificate Live On Line. We successfully offered the first module, “What is Horticultural Therapy” over three days with students from across Canada and even a southern neighbor participating. The program takes place [...]
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Lots of lively discussion at the Organic Garden and Permaculture Discussion Group offered by Garden Jane.
We continue to work through the Natural Farming ideas of Masanobu Fukuoka and consider practical applications for this knowledge in an urban area like Toronto.
From Fukuoka’s book, The One-Straw Revolution, I was able to glean the following quotes which I [...]
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Canada AM today featured horticultural therapy programming at Providence Farm as part of a week series focusing on alternative sources of rehabilitation. It was great to see so many of my friends from the greenhouse and that preparations are underway for the spring hanging baskets.
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Last week I had a chance to job shadow Tracy Ruffini for the day, a Horticultural Therapist, at Malton Village, a long term care facility operated by the Region of Peel in Mississauga. I observed Tracy in action delivering horticultural activities to residents, which included preparing large outdoor winter arrangements to welcome visitors and potting [...]
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