Horticultural therapy
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Horticultural therapy is the practice of horticulture as therapy to improve human well-being. According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, HT is defined as “a process utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, psychological and physical adjustment of persons thus improving their body, mind, and spirit.”
[edit] External links
- American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA)
- Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association [1]
- Chicago Botanic Garden - 26 Gardens - Horticultural Therapy [2] Download pdf-brochure "Enabling Garden" [3]
- Horticultural Therapy in Royal Botanic Garden, Hamilton, Canada [4]
- Horticultural Therapy in Siberia, Russia [5] Download pdf-brochure in Russian either as a simple version, 1.9 Mb [6] or a 2-sided brochure (first file, 1.16 Mb [7] and second file, 0.4 Mb [8] )
- Horticultural Therapy at Edmonds Community College
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Kansas State University offered the first graduate program in Horticultural Therapy in 1971. Kansas State University's program information for undergraduate and graduate programs may be reached at www.ksu.edu
