Horticultural Therapy


Catkin Gardens Ann Kent, HTM, is a horticulturist and a Registered Horticultural Therapist with more than three decades of experience in therapeutic horticulture, horticultural therapy, and restorative garden design. Her business, Catkin Gardens, is located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Providence Farm a working organic farm dedicated to restoring the spirit and skills of those with physical, mental and emotional challenges. Our farm provides innovative programs in Horticultural Therapy and vocational training. We believe that caring for the land together is, by nature, healing and therapeutic.

Gardening With Ease We carry a line of ergonomic gardening tools and accessories that ease the physical stress on the gardener, thus allowing individuals to Garden With Ease.

How to design and build gardens with easy access for elderly people, wheelchair gardeners,diabled gardeners and folk with a disability that makes getting around difficult, including pathways, leveling sloping gardens and practical garden maintenance

Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet: "Gardening with the elderly" Many changes occur as a person ages. These changes impact a person's physical, emotional and cognitive abilities as well as social roles. Gardening can be used in a therapeutic way to address these issues and improve the elderly person's physical and emotional conditions, cognitive ability and social interactions.

Garden Forever Gardening for people of all ages, abilities and lifestyles. If I could have but one wish it would be to garden forever.

Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association

Horticultural Therapy Program of The Holden Arboretum The purpose of the is to: enable individuals with special needs to benefit from therapy through horticulture by engaging professionals in educational programs, providing therapeutic programming and instigating research.

ASLA Therapeutic Garden Design Professional Interest Group

Thrive Is the UK national organisation promoting the use of horticulture and gardening for training, therapy and health. The national horticultural charity which exists to enable disadvantaged, disabled and older people to participate fully in the social and economic life of the community.

Gardening in Raised Beds and Containers for Older Gardeners and Individuals with Physical Disabilities.

City Gardener: Horticulture TherapyThis is sponsored by the City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture Here you will find a description of an "enabling garden" and a list of resources.

The Growing Center, Inc. Horticultural Therapy is a process that uses plants and horticultural activities to improve people's social, educational, psychological, and physical adjustments thereby improving their body, mind and spirit's. The center's mission is to provide horticultural therapy programs for senior citizens, youth at risk, and physically or mentally challenged community members

American Horticultural Therapy Association

Virginia Tech Horticultural Therapy

Horticultural Therapy website at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Horticultural Therapy courses:
The Growing Center
Kansas State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Texas A & M University
Temple University
Tennessee Technological University
The New York Botanical Garden