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Aerobic Gardening Home Page Jeffrey Restuccio, author of Fitness the Dynamic Gardening Way, has developed a website devoted to gardening and fitness. Lots of information about stretching and techniques from the martial arts and weight training to gardening motions.

The American Horticultural Therapy Association Promoting health and well-being through gardening activities.

Backyard Habitat "Enabling the Disabled to Attract Wildlife at Home". This is an article about Gene Rothert, author of The Enabling Garden 1994. He is a registered horticultural therapist at Chicago Botanic Garden where he has created a demonstration garden using methods and tools to make gardening easier.

The Canadian Horticulture Therapy Association Incorporated in 1987 with the objective "to assist with programme development, research, and to promote the professional use of horticulture as a therapy."

The Enabling Garden In Diana Pederson's bi-weekly articles for Suite 101, the author interviews people who, despite gardening with physical difficulties, achieve great joy from their endeavors.

Gardening With Arthritis Diana Pederson interviews, John Adney, a former horticulturist from Iowa, who had to give up his profession because of arthritis but still continues to enjoy gardening even after two hip replacements.

GardenWeb's Container Gardening Forum If you're familiar with GardenWeb's forums, you'll know that there is always plenty of sound advice and interesting conversation here. A great place for both experienced and novice gardeners to ask and answer questions and share insights and information.

Green Web GardeningThe Older Gardener - An Australian ezine with a page focusing on gardening as we get older.

The Growing Center Inc. A non-profit Horticultural Therapy center in Frederick, PA, The Growing Center offers community gardens, a monthly meeting for local people and for all of us a beautiful website with clear, well-written information about Horticultural Therapy.

Horticultural Therapy "In 1988 City Farmer built five raised wooden beds at our Demonstration Garden to accommodate people in wheelchairs. We invited people from a variety of healthcare facilities to come and take part in horticultural activities such as watering, seeding, and making crafts from plants in the garden. Quadriplegic children, adults in their 90's and people with a variety of disabilities were brought in special buses to our new "Ability Garden" by their care givers . After two years of work with the pilot program, we concluded that everyone loved the experience whether because they enjoyed being out in the fresh air, smelling the flowers, tasting the just picked vegetables and berries, or because of the physical activity of gardening and the social interaction with their fellow gardeners and our horticultural animators. Our enthusiasm for horticulture therapy encouraged us to produce a short handbook titled Gardening With People With Disabilities and send it out to all the health care facilities in the Province. "

Horticultural Therapy This is a "space for people interested in people plant relationships". The site provides information on the latest conferences, journals, and events for staying in touch with what is happening in horticultural therapy.

Horticulture Therapy at Kansas State University Their website describes the programmes offered in this field.

Josh's Garden Web Josh Spece offers encouragement and good advice on how to make a garden both accessible and enjoyable. Take his garden tour, you will be thoroughly impressed. He's also added

The Holden Arboratem Horticultural Therapy Program This purpose of this programme is to " ...enable individuals with special needs to benefit from therapy through horticulture by engaging professionals in education programs, providing therapeutic programming and instigating research."

Horticulture for All The Federation to Promote Horticulture for Disabled People in the UK covers horticulture therapy, training and enhancement of life from gardening. Horticulture for All is the working name of The Federation to Promote Horticulture for Disabled People (FPHDP)."As members, we use horticulture as a means of improving skills, health and quality of life. We develop training, education and rehabilitation programme and work in day centres, special schools, hospitals, sheltered workshops and in the community. We work with people with special needs to design and manage environments they can live in with the aim of helping them to make the most of their abilities, to build confidence and increase their well-being."

The New Enabling Garden Horticulture Therapy is an activity-based programme that helps people interact with plants to promote human well-being, both physical and psychological. The Chicago Botanical Garden has received worldwide recognition for its efforts in developing barrier-free gardening so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of gardening. They encourage the use of vertical gardens, raised beds, container gardens, scented gardens, promotion of enabling tools, etc. to further the enjoyment of gardening for everyone.

Not-Stooped Garden Tools This company is "dedicated to developing garden tools that require less stooping, kneeling, squatting and crawling". They have the weedinator and the dandedigger. Nice tools that make gardening a little easier.

The Recovery Garden One woman's story of her battle with breast cancer and how her garden helped her through it.

Sure Grip Sports Glove When Mac Gillum lost most of the use of both his hands in 2003, he needed to find a way to grip onto items to perform normals tasks like home and garden repairs. He invented The Sure Grip Sports Glove which can be used for household tasks and also in any sport including golf, tennis, or baseball.

Susan Tomlin's Disabled Gardening Page Susan's page is an inspirational site about gardening with a physical disability. Besides producing a beautiful garden under limited conditions, Susan has designed a lovely web page with great graphics and links.

Thrive UK national horticultural charity that promotes the use of gardening and horticulture for training and employment, therapy and health.

WheelAround Corporation Where you can find the most unique garden utility cart around. It's low to the ground build makes it so easy to use and also easy on the back and knees and a real help to people who have trouble lifting and moving heavy things around the garden. This heavy duty cart weighs only 23 lbs and is perfect to put in the trunk of your car or back of your truck.

Mobile Wheelchairs Directory - Wheelchair related websites organized by category.

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