Comments for Garden Route Therapy http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org learning intentional practices using plants & gardening in healing processes Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:44:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 Comment on Daffodils by Julie http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/03/26/daffodils/#comment-57 Julie Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:51:02 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/03/26/daffodils/#comment-57 Emma, This is a beautiful poem. Just checking into your Blog. Drop me a quick line when you are able - curious to know how things are going and how you are! Aaron was in Vancouver but sadly it was all work and no play and had no time me to call anyone. He says hello. Sending love your way as spring approaches. Love, Ju Emma,

This is a beautiful poem.

Just checking into your Blog. Drop me a quick line when you are able - curious to know how things are going and how you are!

Aaron was in Vancouver but sadly it was all work and no play and had no time me to call anyone. He says hello.

Sending love your way as spring approaches.

Love,
Ju

]]> Comment on tree of life by Jacqui http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/02/17/tree-of-life/#comment-56 Jacqui Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:46:47 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/02/17/tree-of-life/#comment-56 The quote was very touching and points directly to what we learn and value as horticultural therapists..definitely one that would have meaning for many... Thanks for sharing this essence with others.. nature/ garden lovers and lovers of life. I am here..I am here. Jacqui The quote was very touching and points directly to what we learn and value as horticultural therapists..definitely one that would have meaning for many… Thanks for sharing this essence with others.. nature/ garden lovers and lovers of life.
I am here..I am here. Jacqui

]]> Comment on tree of life by Brent MacKinnon http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/02/17/tree-of-life/#comment-55 Brent MacKinnon Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:50:02 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/02/17/tree-of-life/#comment-55 Hi Emma, I read this book years ago and I must say it was one of the most significant and awareness expanding books I ever read. It moved me into my own roots and I truly understood for the first time the natural movement to life and love. Your selection of this excerpt captures the spirit of the book so well. Your Dad, in choosing this story has revealed the book's essence especially for those that never experienced beauty and love while embroiled in such human suffering. Be well, keep writing and posting, talk soon, your friend, Brent Hi Emma,

I read this book years ago and I must say it was one of the most significant and awareness expanding books I ever read. It moved me into my own roots and I truly understood for the first time the natural movement to life and love.

Your selection of this excerpt captures the spirit of the book so well. Your Dad, in choosing this story has revealed the book’s essence especially for those that never experienced beauty and love while embroiled in such human suffering.

Be well, keep writing and posting, talk soon,
your friend,
Brent

]]> Comment on Contact by Sharon Stewart http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/contact/#comment-54 Sharon Stewart Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/contact/#comment-54 Hello It is great to see your pictures and read your dialogue. I am really glad that you are enjoying your journey. I hope that you are doing well. You are missing a "ton" of snow here. It seems like it has been a long winter. The Julien Courtyard garden is under much snow. The Trillium Proposal is finally submitted 38 pages. It was not too difficult to do and I am very grateful for your guidance and direction with it. In the final analysis, that is what kept me on track when answering the questions. A professional proposal writter reviewed it and said it was an excellent proposal. We were able to get reference/ support letters from Ignatius, Homewood, and Trellis ( Community Mental Health Clinic) It has been a very tiring process but glad to have it off my desk now.. hence I have a little time to connect with you. Keep well. David and I hope to get away for a little break over Easter w.e. He is very busy too but managing o.k. Doing much travelling. Cheers, Sharon Hello
It is great to see your pictures and read your dialogue.
I am really glad that you are enjoying your journey.
I hope that you are doing well. You are missing a “ton” of snow here.
It seems like it has been a long winter. The Julien Courtyard garden is under much snow.
The Trillium Proposal is finally submitted 38 pages.
It was not too difficult to do and I am very grateful for your guidance and direction with it.
In the final analysis, that is what kept me on track when answering the questions. A professional proposal writter reviewed it and said it was an excellent proposal. We were able to get reference/ support letters from Ignatius, Homewood, and Trellis ( Community Mental Health Clinic)
It has been a very tiring process but glad to have it off my desk now.. hence I have a little time to connect with you.
Keep well.
David and I hope to get away for a little break over Easter w.e. He is very busy too but managing o.k. Doing much travelling.
Cheers, Sharon

]]> Comment on first farm impressions by native plant girl http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/01/21/first-farm-impressions/#comment-50 native plant girl Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:58:57 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2008/01/21/first-farm-impressions/#comment-50 hey - happy house warming! :) & funny: you annabel and i are reading the same book :) I MISS YOU and you make me smile :)++hugs!++ michou hey - happy house warming! :) & funny: you annabel and i are reading the same book :) I MISS YOU and you make me smile :)++hugs!++ michou

]]> Comment on food for the whole human by Tricia http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/12/25/class-photo/#comment-46 Tricia Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:31:30 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/12/25/class-photo/#comment-46 Hear hear! I am allergic to tartaric acid which is a toxin found in yeast/mould/fungus. I’m also hypersensitive to rancid fat. I've found that 90% of the food I buy has already started to mould or turn rancid, especially the “convenient” foodstuff. I have resorted to a whole-foods diet consisting strictly of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit to minimize the amount of tartaric acid I'm exposed to. The VERY FEW food products I do buy in a jar, box or package are by companies that I have discovered, through trial-and-error, live-up to their word of valuing quality versus mass manufacturing. I’ve long had this misconception that companies which produce organic products were more socially conscious and valued quality over the others—I found I was really wrong about that. There is more to it than that I think. It’s about how we’ve lost our connection—spiritual connection—to our food and how we no longer consider how it feeds our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. One of the oldest war-tactics is to cutoff food supplies to the enemy, not with the objective of wiping out an entire army via physical starvation but to incapacitate them mentally and emotionally—to break THEIR SPIRIT. We seem to just consume our food like we consume everything in this world--with the delusion of infinite resources and our immortality! How is it that we’ve become so irresponsible in the production and support of what we put into our bodies? OUR bodies! I tell you, I’m VERY close to buying a farm and raising/growing my own food. What stops me is it's self-serving; that my role in this is more to serve others than myself. I don't know how yet but I'm sure the opportunity will present itself when the time is right. Hear hear! I am allergic to tartaric acid which is a toxin found in yeast/mould/fungus. I’m also hypersensitive to rancid fat. I’ve found that 90% of the food I buy has already started to mould or turn rancid, especially the “convenient” foodstuff. I have resorted to a whole-foods diet consisting strictly of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit to minimize the amount of tartaric acid I’m exposed to. The VERY FEW food products I do buy in a jar, box or package are by companies that I have discovered, through trial-and-error, live-up to their word of valuing quality versus mass manufacturing. I’ve long had this misconception that companies which produce organic products were more socially conscious and valued quality over the others—I found I was really wrong about that.

There is more to it than that I think. It’s about how we’ve lost our connection—spiritual connection—to our food and how we no longer consider how it feeds our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. One of the oldest war-tactics is to cutoff food supplies to the enemy, not with the objective of wiping out an entire army via physical starvation but to incapacitate them mentally and emotionally—to break THEIR SPIRIT.

We seem to just consume our food like we consume everything in this world–with the delusion of infinite resources and our immortality! How is it that we’ve become so irresponsible in the production and support of what we put into our bodies? OUR bodies! I tell you, I’m VERY close to buying a farm and raising/growing my own food. What stops me is it’s self-serving; that my role in this is more to serve others than myself. I don’t know how yet but I’m sure the opportunity will present itself when the time is right.

]]> Comment on “What do you mean by horticultural therapy?” by Lisa (HT student) http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/09/21/home-farm-calgary-class/#comment-35 Lisa (HT student) Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:31:51 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/09/21/home-farm-calgary-class/#comment-35 Very well said Emma! Being a new stundent to Horticultural Therapy there have been a lot of "light bulb" moments for myself. Gardening has been a part of my life, but I never realized the value of gardening beyond gardening until my first week of the Horticultural Therapy Certificate Course and I look forward to the next 4 modules. Recently I have had the opportunity to volunteer with seniors. The staff and the residents are very receptive. Have received a lot of articles on Horticultural Therapy and I had no idea the ammount of interest and programs running. There appears to be a movement in Horticultural Therapy and I know that I am not the only one realizing the benefit of this. My goal at this time is to engage all of the seniors where I volunteer with Horticultural Therapy. This process is not about myself, but when I see the benefits happening it gives me a sense of well-being. In providing therapy I am receiving it! Thank you Emma for your great article. Very well said Emma!

Being a new stundent to Horticultural Therapy there have been a lot of “light bulb” moments for myself. Gardening has been a part of my life, but I never realized the value of gardening beyond gardening until my first week of the Horticultural Therapy Certificate Course and I look forward to the next 4 modules.

Recently I have had the opportunity to volunteer with seniors. The staff and the residents are very receptive.

Have received a lot of articles on Horticultural Therapy and I had no idea the ammount of interest and programs running. There appears to be a movement in Horticultural Therapy and I know that I am not the only one realizing the benefit of this.

My goal at this time is to engage all of the seniors where I volunteer with Horticultural Therapy. This process is not about myself, but when I see the benefits happening it gives me a sense of well-being. In providing therapy I am receiving it!

Thank you Emma for your great article.

]]> Comment on free wheeling by htstudent http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/07/29/the-garden-ride/#comment-34 htstudent Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:01:54 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/07/29/the-garden-ride/#comment-34 Just today I got to Lorraine Johnson's chapter on Community in her book The Gardener's Manifesto: Changing the World and Creating Beauty One Garden at a Time. Of course it provides insight into this amazing garden and Alex Wilson, the person whom the Richmond Street garden honours. I was moved to read again Alex's words which are also quoted on a sign at the garden entrance: "We must build landscapes that heal, connect and empower, that make intelligible our relations with each other and with the natural world: places that welcome and enclose, whose breaks and edges are never without meaning. Nature parks cannot do this work. We urgently need people living on the land, caring for it, working out an idea of nature that includes human culture and human livelihood" (143). Just today I got to Lorraine Johnson’s chapter on Community in her book The Gardener’s Manifesto: Changing the World and Creating Beauty One Garden at a Time. Of course it provides insight into this amazing garden and Alex Wilson, the person whom the Richmond Street garden honours. I was moved to read again Alex’s words which are also quoted on a sign at the garden entrance: “We must build landscapes that heal, connect and empower, that make intelligible our relations with each other and with the natural world: places that welcome and enclose, whose breaks and edges are never without meaning. Nature parks cannot do this work. We urgently need people living on the land, caring for it, working out an idea of nature that includes human culture and human livelihood” (143).

]]> Comment on I lift my gaze by Todd Irvine http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/09/27/i-lift-my-gaze/#comment-33 Todd Irvine Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:56 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/09/27/i-lift-my-gaze/#comment-33 Emma > Thanks for the lovely review of the Tree Tenders program. It is heartening to read comments such as this because it provides us with the inpsiration to continue spreading the word about trees and their wonders. Regards. Todd Emma >

Thanks for the lovely review of the Tree Tenders program. It is heartening to read comments such as this because it provides us with the inpsiration to continue spreading the word about trees and their wonders.

Regards. Todd

]]> Comment on free wheeling by nativeplantgirl http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/07/29/the-garden-ride/#comment-32 nativeplantgirl Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:07:56 +0000 http://horticulturaltherapystudent.uniblogs.org/2007/07/29/the-garden-ride/#comment-32 i know the garden, just starting to know about alex willson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson_(writer,_horticulturist) i know the garden, just starting to know about alex willson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wilson_(writer,_horticulturist)

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