What’s Happening……
2008 Horticultural Therapy Teaching Sessions
Monday, June 16th: Boot Planters
Bring your old boots and we'll plant them up with pretty annuals for your garden, patio, or balcony.
Monday, June 23rd: Dried Floral Arranging
Create a dried floral arrangement to decorate your space with something new and unique.
Monday, July 7th: Potpourri Sachets
Bring the scents of the garden home with you in a potpourri sachet.
Monday, July 14th: Aromatherapy
Learn the different ways that essential oils can be used therapeutically.
Monday, July 21st: Pressed Flower Art
Learn how to preserve plant material and use them to create pressed flower prints.
Monday, July 28th: Herbs in the Garden
Learn how garden herbs can be used therapeutically for health and well-being.
Monday, August 11th: Recycled Notepaper
Learn how easy it is to turn old newspaper into lovely notepaper.
Monday, August 18th: Plant Propagation
Make new plants from old ones to enjoy at home.
Unless stated, all materials are provided by the GEG, free of charge. Donations are greatly appreciated.
To register for a teaching session please contact the Garden's Horticultural Therapist:
Lea Tran, 519-993-5323, lea@green-ideas.ca.
GUELPH'S SEEDY SATURDAY
Guelph Enabling GardenSaturday May 3 10 am-3 pm
This is an outdoor and fully accessible venue. There will be activities for kids and refreshments available.
Presentations:
10-10:45 am
Join in on a discussion on community food security initiatives with local food supporters, Mike Driscoll,
Kate Vsetula and friends.
11-11:45 am
Paul Evering from Ecogenesis will be talking about the importance of saving publicly owned seed varieties.
His seed company saves rare, organic, open-pollinated, non-genetically modified seeds that he often donates
to Native Canadian groups, The Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity in Africa, the YMCA and others.
12-1 pm
Margaret Nevett will be demonstrating how to use gardening tools properly to avoid physical strain.
She will be showing us a wide variety of enabling tools available on the market, and will tell us how we can
easily adapt existing tools to better tailor personal needs.
1-3 pm
Michael Shook from the Guelph International Resource Centre will be giving a Water Efficiency Gardening workshop.
Together, Mike and participants will be planning an imaginary vegetable garden to discuss the best water saving techniques.
The discussion will touch on mulching, irrigation, companion planting and pest control methods.
Other Participants:
The Appleseed Collective
Composting Council of Canada
The Guelph International Resource Centre
Thank you to all the visitors, speakers, story tellers and participants who attended our 2007 Season Teaching Programs, Teatime and Storytelling, Youth Workshops and Guest Speakers. We hope you enjoyed the programs we offered and look forward to more exciting events in 2008.
Currently, we have volunteers from Home Depot, Guelph, planting fall bulbs and installing bricks from our 2007 Buy-A-Brick campaign. The bricks were donated and delivered by Guelph Building Supply. The next, and final, brick installation will take place in the fall of 2008. There are only 70 bricks left to purchase.
What Happened…… Past Programs and Events
The Gardening Experience
As you walk the wide, wheelchair-friendly paths, read the donor bricks with memorials of loved ones, and others with wonderful proverbs. Listen to the river, walk the spiral path. Admire the raised and ground beds which have been planted and are maintained by community groups and individuals as part of their own horticultural therapy programme. The Wellington Association for Community Living, Guelph Services for People with Disabilities, Spark of Brilliance, Zonta and Arc Industries are some of the organizations, which bring their members regularly to the garden to care for their raised or ground beds. See, feel, smell, touch and hear what there is to discover in this very special garden.
For more information about The Guelph Enabling Garden or information about volunteering contact Wendy at wendylew@sympatico.ca.
For more information about The Guelph Enabling Garden or information about volunteering contact Wendy at wendylew@sympatico.ca.
Home
| What's Happening? | How
can you help? | Development Plans:
Phase I | Development Plans: Phase
II
Our Partners |
Newsletter | Location | Web
Link
Sponsored by: The Ontario Trillium Foundation, United Way, and The City of Guelph
Contact Us:
P.O. Box 15
Guelph, Ontario
N1H 6J6
enablinginfo@sympatico.ca
*Guelph Enabling Garden design and details by Glynis Logue | Web site designed by Lynn Tessaro and maintained by Gary Smith