Horticultural Therapy (HT) uses plants, gardens, and other aspects of nature to improve people’s social, spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.
Here are some good organizations to start with:
American Horticulture Therapy Association
www.ahta.org
Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association
www.chta.ca
German Association for Horticulture and Therapy
www.ggut.org/english
City Farm
www.resourcecenterchicago.org/70thfarm.html
City Farmer “Urban Agricultural Notes” by City Farmer, Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture, with a large section on horticultural therapy
www.cityfarmer.org/horttherp70.html#hort
Farming for Health
www.farmingforhealth.org
Horticulture For All
www.horticultureforall.org
Human Issues in Horticulture – Horticulture Therapy
www.hort.vt.edu/human/h-therp.html“www.hort.vt.edu/human/h-therp.html
KinderGarden Horticultural therapy (and other horticultural information) for children
aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm
Konrad Neuberger, Chair of the German Association for Horticulture and Therapy GGuT – Good links, including international
www.konrad-neuberger.de/english/links/index_links.html
Konrad Neuberger – Psychotherapy HPG: Articles for download
www.konrad-neuberger.de/english/angebote/artikel/index_artikel.html
The Sensory Trust - A charity promoting communication between disability groups and environmental organisations
www.sensorytrust.org.uk
Urban Meadows, Chicago’s Nonprofit Florist: “Assisting the mentally ill in their recovery journey.”
www.urbanmeadows.org
Photo by Brian Peterson, courtesy of the Star Tribune Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
The image above is from a really nice article in the Star Tribune Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota called “Program Seeds a Path to Healing.”
"I am a huge fan of this website and refer it to all my HT students and HT interns."
