Therapeutic Garden Grant Applications Are Now Available
April 12, 2021 National Garden Bureau (NGB), American Meadows, and Sakata Seeds America have opened applications for the Therapeutic Garden Grant program. The three grant winners will receive $5,000, and a set of gardening tools courtesy of Corona Tools.
Applications are now being accepted for gardens that meet the following criteria:
- Having a defined therapeutic program, with a Registered Horticulture Therapist or on-staff serving as an advisor and uses the garden to achieve outlined goals for the participants (i.e., occupational, physical, vocational, or rehabilitation therapy taking place in a garden).
- Is used for job training, skill-building, food growing, socialization skills, improved quality of life, environmental education, or any other positive outcome that can be gained by working in nature.
- Involve a significant number of gardeners, clients, patients, visitors, or students monthly.
- Has existed for at least one year.
Applications are open online and are due back no later than June 30.
This philanthropy started in 2014 and has since granted more than $40,000 in prizes to gardeners who inspire, educate, and motivate gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Learn more about last year’s grant recipients here.
Gardening played a role in helping people last year with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I think [gardening] is satisfying an emotional need,” said Judy Seaborn, Co-Owner of Botanical Interests, Inc, at NGB’s SeedFacts discussion panel in February. “People have been frightened. People have been stressed and disappointed with everything going on around them. How lovely is it to go outside, plant a seed and watch it germinate.”
According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, horticultural therapy provides the environment to facilitate plant and participant interaction and focus on healing, rehabilitation, vocational, and socialization activities.
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