Horticulture Therapy Celebrated in Advance of Spring
March 15, 2019
Horticulture Therapy Celebrated in Advance of the Start of Spring
Somerset County Freeholder Director Brian Levine, second from left, was at Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic® on Thursday to declare the week of March 17-23 as Horticultural Therapy Week in Somerset County. Joining him, from left, were Brian J. Schilling, Ph.D., senior associate director, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station, and director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Laura DePrado, registered horticultural therapist, and Susan Leight, director of Carrier Clinic’s Adult Psychiatric and Addiction unit. Carrier Clinic sponsors an active horticultural therapy program that is overseen by DePrado in support of its patients. Levine noted that horticultural therapy is a time-proven practice with therapeutic benefits and, because spring officially begins with the vernal equinox on March 20, this “is an ideal time to focus our energies on the therapeutic benefits of garden environments.”
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