Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. To work the soil for your food is one of the most basic of ...

This week, March 15 to 21, is national Horticultural Therapy Week. It coinciding with the birth of spring, St. Patrick’s Day, Shamrock of green clover and the week of promotion of horticultural ...

What is horticulture? I was asked this while picking up a load of compost at the Olmsted County Recycling Center. My wife will chuckle when she reads this, as she has told me many times that calling ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Coming from image-conscious professionals who prefer to gush about the beauty of flowers and the joys of growing vegetables, the words were downright shocking: “Horticulture is ...

Horticultural Therapy Week was celebrated Tuesday at Fernbrook Farms in Chesterfield in partnership with Final Touch Plantscaping. Recognizing this proven practice of using therapeutic benefits of ...

Spring’s bounty is at our fingertips as the seasonal cycles of nature awaken, and we seek to get our hands in the dirt and soak up the longer days of sunlight. The official start of spring is March 20 ...

Humans have long recognized that our connection to plants is inherently healing. In fact, research has shown that just having a plant in your hospital room could shorten your stay. Horticultural ...

The students at the Barrack Obama School of Leadership and STEM showed off the skills they learned at the school's horticulture program. "This is actually my favorite class," student Epiphany ...

Nora Palmer is a gardener who toils happily in breezy Hershey Gardens, a playground of roses, herbs, old trees and leafy spaces that welcomes, among others, field-tripping grade-schoolers. “I’ve just ...

The scheme is being run by West Sussex Growers’ Association (WSGA), a specialist horticultural branch of the NFU, in partnership with training providers MDS, and has been described as, “a very ...