RE: Fwd: Adaptive Gardening
- Subject: RE: [cg] Fwd: Adaptive Gardening
- From: H* A*
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:24:06 -0400
Dear Mr. Tabashneck:
What you are talking about is also called enabled gardening:
Here are some links:
Chicago Botanic Garden Enabled Garden:
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/HortTherapyGardenUpdate.html
horticultural therapy:
American Horticultural Therapy Association: (800) 634-1603; Web site:
www.ahta.org; e-mail: ahta@ahta.org; publication: Journal of Therapeutic
Horticulture.
The Garden Forever site:
http://www.gardenforever.com/
Gardening tools for the handicapped:
http://www.achievableconcepts.com.au/garden.htm
An article on handicapped gardening:
http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/yard/1997/011397.html#1
A Bibliography:
"The Able Gardener" by Kathleen Yeomans; Storey Communications, 304 pp.,
$16.95.
"Able to Garden: A Practical Guide for Disabled and Elderly Gardeners"
edited by Peter Please; B.T. Batsford Ltd., 144 pp., $15.99.
"Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities: A Guide to
Methods, Anything Goes" by Sherry London; Rodale Press, (800) 527-8200.
"Creating Eden: The Garden as a Healing Space" by Dr. Marilyn Barrett;
Harper, 148 pp., $18. Also available on audiotape for $24.95 by calling
(408) 656-9120.
"The Enabling Garden: Creating Barrier-Free Gardens" by Gene Rothert; Taylor
Publishing Co., 150 pp., $13.95. (214) 819-8100.
-----Original Message-----
From: Libby J. Goldstein [l*@igc.org]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:09 PM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: [cg] Fwd: Adaptive Gardening
Can anyone here help this gentleman?
L
>Status: U
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:24:53 -0400
>From: "Bruce Tabashneck" <TabashBr@northville.k12.mi.us>
>To: <libby@igc.apc.org>, <philadelphia@email.cas.psu.edu>
>Subject: Adaptive Gardening
>
>Attention: Charles Young & Libby J. Goldstein
>
>
>I am a school social worker at the Cooke School in Northville,
>Michigan which provides vocational and activity services to children
>and adults with severe disabilities.
>
>We are interested in building a raised garden for people in
>wheelchairs and would appreciate any suggestions that you may have.
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>Bruce Tabashneck
>Northville Public Schools
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Philadelphia, PA
USDA zone 7A Sunset zone 32
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