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10 Engaging Garden Signs (article)

10 Signs to Engage your Garden Visitors

Signage seems to be a fairly undeveloped strategy for encouraging engagement in therapeutic gardens and school gardens. My theory is that more garden engagement generally means more therapeutic benefit. This...

10 Signs to Engage your Garden Visitors

Signage seems to be a fairly undeveloped strategy for encouraging engagement in therapeutic gardens and school gardens. My theory is that more garden engagement generally means more therapeutic benefit. This...

Danny's Orchid Therapy

Danny's Orchid Therapy

Having an orchid to care for and call his own turned the daily struggle of showing up for outpatient psychiatric treatment into eager anticipation. This heartwarming story illustrates that bonding...

Danny's Orchid Therapy

Having an orchid to care for and call his own turned the daily struggle of showing up for outpatient psychiatric treatment into eager anticipation. This heartwarming story illustrates that bonding...

Keeping it Simple: Sensory-based Garden Programming

Keeping it Simple: Sensory-based Garden Program...

As therapeutic activity leaders, our goal is to provide opportunities for people to feel more alive and to live more fully. I found there are more benefits to be had with...

Keeping it Simple: Sensory-based Garden Program...

As therapeutic activity leaders, our goal is to provide opportunities for people to feel more alive and to live more fully. I found there are more benefits to be had with...