Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
OPENING MEETING

Shapiro Havis strives to provide all her
clients with a farm-to-table experience
at any physical ability.
"I have designed these gardens so
people of any ability can have a hand
in it:' she said.
Horticultural therapy is a new
burgeoning field offering benefits
to a variety of populations with dis-
abilities. According to the American
Horticultural Therapy Association,
gardening helps to maintain physi-
cal and mental function by providing
stimulation plus mood-enhancing
sunshine. Gardening is also hailed for
its benefits to schoolchildren as a way
to reduce stress, combat childhood
obesity and teach responsibility.
Program managers such as Kristi
Davis of JARC in Farmington Hills and
Dina Rudashevski of JVS in Southfield
recently met with Marc Israel to con-
sider if making trips out to the garden
for their clients is within the budget of
each agency.
According to Rudashevski, JVS has a
budget of approximately $20 per client
per month to spend on outings, and
this dollar amount drops slightly in
the summer because of the availability
of free outdoor programming. JVS is
determining if it is within its budget
to provide once-a-month outings to
the center's garden where seniors can
learn gardening skills, create an arts
and craft project in the garden's gazebo
and then sample dishes created by the
resident chefs from food grown in the
garden.
A group of senior citizens from
Huntington Woods soon will come
visit the garden, learn about the
importance of decreasing our carbon
footprint by buying local produce and
growing food organically. Then, they
will pot their own plants to take home
with them as a gardening project.

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