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The beauty of the truly unexpected…
February 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm
After a long holiday weekend with snow, the students that participate in the Adaptive Gardens programs where very eager to get back to work!
Our greenhouse was finished and the tables were built! The only thing left to do was start filling them with seed trays!  As we began working with one of our groups this week, it was hard not to see the similarities in the beautiful unexpected weather we had just had and the classes we hold.  The Horticultural Therapy Program created for Adaptive Gardens of the Low country was designed to offer horticultural skills  while accommodating a variety of disabilities and learning styles.  So, we work with a wide range of students.

Greenhouse - just after weathering the snowfall
Some of our students are considered to be severely or profoundly disabled and often have multiple physical and cognitive special needs, others are behaviorally and emotionally challenged and are learning social skills and behavioral control with the help of their aids and teachers.  With each of these groups there are unexpected beautiful moments, like a student who last week had to be taken on a “self checking walk about” after an angry rant, and this week gently fluffed baby lettuce sprouts while watering in the greenhouse.  These moments just shine through brightly, like white snow on the newly built greenhouse on a McClellanville farm!

Watering in the greenhouse
We would love for you to come visit us! If you want to come tour or volunteer email me at: catherine@adaptivegardens.org. Leslie and I cant wait to see you in the gardens!

Catherine McGuinn

Horticultural Therapist and Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country
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If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute…
January 21, 2010 | 7:18 pm
That’s what they say down here along the coast, and unfortunately it goes both ways. Just after the long cold spell with13 days when temperatures dipped below freezing(!!!), we had a brief period of warm and clear weather. Then… just as we were ready to start on our greenhouse. construction was held up again, thanks to mother nature… Now, we do love the rain, but not on the day we wanted to build our greenhouse!

Preparing to Plant

Preparing to Plant
Our very patient volunteer Mr. Bill Brandson, is hangin’ in there with us and we feel sure the sun will be shining down on him and our Adaptive Gardens class from Georgetown HS on Monday as we put together our much anticipated greenhouse. But, in the meantime, come on out to the Our Local Foods Farm Store and pick up one of the overflowing bags of mixed lettuces our Adaptive Gardens class from Wando HS harvested on Wednesday or better yet, the seed paper the Adaptive Gardens class from Lincoln HS made on Tuesday!

Wando High School

Wando High School at the farm
Leslie and I cant wait to see you in the gardens!

Catherine McGuinn

Horticultural Therapist and Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country

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Harvesting Lettuce
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Happy New Year!
January 8, 2010 | 1:03 pm

Adaptive Gardens of the Lowcountry wishes you a very Happy New Year!  The students are back at it this week, and we have been weeding and gathering our winter harvest; lettuce, collards  and kale.  The cold weather did keep us from building our greenhouse this week, but it will be in by the end of the month with the help of one of our wonderful volunteers, Bill Bradson.  Leslie and I can’t wait to have the kids fill it up with seeds trays for all our Spring crops! We have already ordered our Spring seeds; flowers, herbs and veggies will abound!

We are planning to plant so many seedlings, we are thinking of having a Spring Plant Sale!  So stay posted and we’ll let you know all about it!

Leslie and I wish you a Happy 2010!

Catherine McGuinn

Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country

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