Introducing CEC's emergent Therapeutic Horticulture program!

In recent years, creating a mission-aligned garden curriculum has resulted in lessons that weave together social-emotional learnings with garden-based experiences. We find that our garden students are coming away with not only horticulture skills, but increased self confidence, community-building skills, and creative thinking abilities.

Our goal is to take our current offerings and develop them into a new therapeutic horticulture program. This program will utilize our organization’s expertise as farm to school educators as well as community partnerships with local health authorities and school-based mental health professionals. With the support of an advisory board, we will develop a curriculum that pairs garden skills with social-emotional learnings, to be implemented in school gardens and our own children’s garden.