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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is horticultural therapy? If you were to visit the Napa Valley Hospice facility on Jefferson Street in south Napa, you would see an inspiring example. Nine volunteers, many of them Napa County ...

Some gardens in the south suburbs become instruments in education. The students at the Barrack Obama School of Leadership and STEM showed off the skills they learned at the school's horticulture ...

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 ...