Objectives
- Participants will identify ways plants can benefit individuals and communities and possible ways MGVs can facilitate these interactions.
Continuing Education Hours
Video and Reading: 2.0 hours
Activity: Posting in Google+ Community: 0.5 hours
Lecture
- Mike Maddox, Master Gardener Program Director
- People-Plant Interactions
- Note: Lecture is ~12 minutes long.
Reading
- Human Issues in Horticulture (PDF)
- Human Issues in Horticulture (web version)
Activity: Posting in Google Community
After reading the article, use the People/Plant Interactions category of our Google+ Community to provide examples from your own experience as you address one of these topics:
- How plants/gardening can positively impact an individual
- How plants/gardening can positively impact the community
- How MGVs can help facilitate these interactions
To earn the half hour of continuing education, you must write a post (minimum two sentences) and respond to one of your classmate’s posts (minimum two sentences). You can reply to anyone’s post from any point during the course. If you have questions on posting etiquette, read tips on best posting practices.
More to Explore
- Biophilia Hypothesis
- Restorative Commons: Creating health and well-being through urban landscapes
- Biophilia, Health, and Well-being (PDF, pages 38-57)
- Green Cities: Good Health
- Recent Studies Bolster HT Claims
- Parks and Other Green Environments: Essential Components of a Healthy Human Habitat (PDF, 48 pages)
- Landscape and Human Health Laboratory
- Healing Gardens, University of Minnesota
- Horticultural Therapy, American Horticultural Therapy Association
Feel free to share any new insights or questions from these resources in the People/Plant Interactions category in our Google+ Community.
Combine the elements of healing garden with the other aspects of Level 2 training to create spaces to best engage audiences.
