What is horticulture? I was asked this while picking up a load of compost at the Olmsted County Recycling Center. My wife will chuckle when she reads this, as she has told me many times that calling ...

Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. To work the soil for your food is one of the most basic of ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Coming from image-conscious professionals who prefer to gush about the beauty of flowers and the joys of growing vegetables, the words were downright shocking: “Horticulture is ...

This week, March 15 to 21, is national Horticultural Therapy Week. It coinciding with the birth of spring, St. Patrick’s Day, Shamrock of green clover and the week of promotion of horticultural ...

It’s a warm, sunny morning in Tony Wright’s lush backyard in Roswell, Georgia. The retired human-resources manager sits on a folding chair and gazes around in contemplation, surrounded by shade trees ...

Nora Palmer is a gardener who toils happily in breezy Hershey Gardens, a playground of roses, herbs, old trees and leafy spaces that welcomes, among others, field-tripping grade-schoolers. “I’ve just ...

Humans have long recognized that our connection to plants is inherently healing. In fact, research has shown that just having a plant in your hospital room could shorten your stay. Horticultural ...

What is horticultural therapy? If you were to visit the Napa Valley Hospice facility on Jefferson Street in south Napa, you would see an inspiring example. Nine volunteers, many of them Napa County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring’s bounty is at our fingertips as the seasonal cycles of nature awaken, and we seek to get our hands in the dirt and soak up ...