Growing with Gardening

Growing with Gardening offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. Developed under the auspices of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, it features more than 250 activities, organized by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the clear, concise text.

Growing with Gardening: A Twelve-month Guide for Therapy, Recreation, and Education
Bibby Moore is education and training coordinator for the North Carolina Division of Environmental Health and was for seven years coordinator of the Horticultural Therapy Program at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. She was the 1988 recipient of the Rhea McCandliss Professional Service Award of the American Horticultural Therapy Association and the 1991 winner of the Horticultural Therapy Award given by the American Horticultural Society.
Especially good for people who have little or no gardening experience.

Minnie S. Jefferson, Group Home Manager
The best horticultural therapy text that has been written.

Richard H. Mattson, Kansas State University
The book allows even the poorest green thumb to be successful.

Kris Achhamer, Therapeutic Recreation Specialist
"Especially good for people who have little or no gardening experience.

Minnie S. Jefferson, Group Home Manager"
"The best horticultural therapy text that has been written.

Richard H. Mattson, Kansas State University"
"The book allows even the poorest green thumb to be successful.

Kris Achhamer, Therapeutic Recreation Specialist"