{"id":2968,"date":"2003-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/03\/2003-04-03-healing-power-of-gardening\/"},"modified":"2003-04-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-03-healing-power-of-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/03\/2003-04-03-healing-power-of-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Power Of Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-PRI-Gardening-Healing-Power.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW MARKET, VIRGINIA, April 2, 2003: National Garden Month, observed in April, has taken &#8220;Celebrate the power of gardening&#8221; as this year&#8217;s theme. Aside from providing sustenance and beauty, gardens are restorative &#8212; they can transform lives, says Valerie Kelsey, president of the National Gardening Association. &#8220;You see it the most with inner-city kids. They can experience it by growing a single strawberry. It&#8217;s forceful,&#8221; says Kelsey. &#8220;You see it in prison gardening. It&#8217;s probably the first time in the inmates&#8217; lives they&#8217;ve learned how to nurture something. It teaches responsibility.&#8221; Landscape designer Nicole Kistler formed most of her impressions about horticultural healing several years ago while a graduate student at the University of Washington. She wrote her master&#8217;s degree thesis around the design methods used for creating some rooftop gardens at the Cancer Lifeline Center in Seattle. &#8220;Patients were able to soothe their tensions. In the end, many were able to tell their stories. There was this huge metaphor for healing. They didn&#8217;t know what they were doing in many cases (with the gardening), but they overcame it.&#8221; Sanctuary gardens are being designed around hospices, churches, schools and jails, among other places. The catharsis provided by these often vest-pocket sanctuaries impact the healers as well as the afflicted, adds Author Eva Shaw.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW MARKET, VIRGINIA, April 2, 2003: National Garden Month, observed in April, has taken &#8220;Celebrate the power,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}