Gardening Resources for People with Disabilities

• Accessible Gardening for Therapeutic Horticulture
  From the University of Minnesota.
• American Horticultural Therapy Association
  An organization concerned with the promotion and development of Horticultural Therapy programming.
• Creating an Enabled Garden
  Nature's way web site.
• Enabled Gardeners Links
  From Gardenscape Tools
• Horticultural Therapy - Create an Enabled Garden
  From the Garden Forever website, which promotes gardening for people of all ages, abilities and lifestyles.
• Gardening For People With Disabilities
  From FoodShare, which operates several innovative grassroots projects that promote healthy eating, teach food preparation and cultivation, develop community capacity and create non-market-based forms of food distribution.
  
• Carry On Gardening
  From Thrive, an organization out of the United Kingdom whose aim is to enable positive change in the lives of disabled and disadvantaged people through the use of gardening and horticulture.
  
• Horticulture Therapy
  From City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
• Tips for Gardeners who use Wheelchairs
  From the University of Missouri AgrAbility Project

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