Joel Flagler – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
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Horticultural Therapy to the Rescue
Joel Flagler – Department of Plant Biology
2020’s New and Improved Flowers: A Gardener’s A-to-Z Guide
Joel Flagler – Department of Plant Biology
This Earth Day especially, ‘remember plants are non-judgmental’ — what it’s like to start gardening during a pandemic
Joel Flagler – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Senior Story: Martha Elisabeth Black (SEBS’19), Inspired by Rutgers Master Gardener Program
Meet Martha Elisabeth Black, a working mother who turned her passion for horticulture fanned by her volunteering as a Rutgers Master Gardener for Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County into a career in horticultural therapy. A G.H. Cook Scholar, Black was inducted in the Matthew Leydt Society and Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. The Leydt Society […]
7 Ways Trendy Plants May Help Your Health
Joel Flagler – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Gardening becomes healing with horticultural therapy
Joel Flagler – Department of Plant Biology
Green Fingers and Smiling Eyes: Its Horticultural Therapy Week in the Garden State
Joel Flagler – Department of Plant Pathology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Donald Kobayashi – Department of Plant Pathology
Oldwick Resident Given Citation For Doing Plant Therapy
After her daughter died, 89-year-old Lorraine Galbraith of Oldwick, was left alone. Gradually, her life, and her connections to others, grew smaller. She put herself in a wheelchair and lived in social isolation and in poor health. Over the years, she soldiered through Hurricane Sandy and numerous medical issues, including a stroke, by herself… Eventually, Right at Home Care, Galbraith’s caregivers, suggested horticultural therapy, which uses gardening and planting related activities to help better the lives of patients. Whittlesey contacted Laura DePrado, president of Final Touch Landscaping and a registered horticultural therapist with the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA), to work with Galbraith… “It couldn’t be more appropriate and beautiful to hold this event,” added DePrado, who studied horticultural therapy at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences… According to Professor Joel Flagler, who teaches horticultural studies at Rutgers University, the therapy works because everyone can relate to plants in one way or another – we eat them, build with them and wear them on a daily basis.
Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
We congratulate these SEBS and NJAES faculty and staff on their accomplishments, appointments and awards below. For university-wide announcements, please visit the Rutgers Faculty and Staff Newsletter. 2024 Thomas Molnar, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology, is the principal investigator of a four-year grant totaling $160,000 from the Ferrero Hazelnut Company (Ferrero HCo), […]
