Therapeutic Horticulture SA: What's Hiding in the Garden Shed?

Join Mel & Dean from Therapeutic Horticulture SA as we step into a world of nostalgic charm with a hands-on display featuring weathered tools, vintage garden equipment, intriguing books, and quirky conversation starters. What tools shaped your gardening journey in the shed? This Pop-Up Museum session invites you to share stories, memories, and experiences from the garden. It's more than just a showcase – it's a taste of Therapeutic Horticulture in action, where the simple act of gardening becomes a gateway to connection and healing.

About our presenters:
Dean is a passionate social therapeutic horticulturalist with more than 15 years experience. As a full-time social therapeutic horticulturalist with ECH, Aged Care Service provider, Dean thrives on creating plant based and garden activities for individuals, Day Programs and groups, to help improve the mind, body and spirit of aged people. Dean's garden therapy programs combine exercise, stimulation and conversation to assist people with all of their health. Melanie's community development background often incorporated gardening into her programs – Oranges on the Oval in a primary school, a memorial garden and harvest swaps. At ECH, she encourages people to be active and participate in activities that interest them, often this is garden based.

For further enquiries please contact: 

Jess Bamford

Coordinator, Hills Environment Centre

coordintor@hecinc.org.au

0405 527 610

Hills Environment Centre is proudly supported by Hills & Fleurieu Landscape SA Board and funded by Green Adelaide

We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians of the land and waters, the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples, upon whose land we live, work, travel and visit at the Hills Environment Centre.