Many Thanks!!
November 12, 2010 | 12:39 pm
| Local Music on the Farm event on November 7 at Thornhill Farm. It was a beautiful day with great music and fantastic food, and lot’s of good company. Particular thanks to: |
- the Adaptive Gardeners
- Marshall Belluw
- French Toast
- Spanish Moss
- Skye Paige and the Original Recipe
- Andrew Alston
- Teri & Julian Levin
- Lee Leland
- Ted & Ampie Toburen
- Bernie & Colleen Groseclose
- and many others!!!
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 Skye Paige and the Original Recipe |
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We will use the proceeds from the event to continue to support our work with local youth in the Charleston & Georgetown area via our horticultural therapy programs on Thornhill Farm.
Thanks – Leslie & Jodie
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2nd Annual Local Music on the Farm – November 7, 2010
September 22, 2010 | 7:06 am
Spring is here! Get moving…
March 30, 2010 | 3:26 pm
| Spring is here and it’s time to get moving! The Adaptive Gardens class have been busy! Gardening can be very physical, which is great for young bodies (and old)! As part of the special education programs, the students that join us at Thornhill Farm have Individual Education Plans (IEP’s). These IEP’s describe the skills that each individual student is learning to master. While many of these skills involve fine motor movements and vocational training, something we focus a lot on out here at the farm. Every students is encouraged to learn a recreational activity that will increase their gross motor skills and use those large muscle groups. In short, get moving! Which is exactly what we have been doing this week. Hoeing and weeding, bending and planting, pushing and pulling; moving our bodies and enjoying the beautiful rewards!
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 Spring in the garden |
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If you want to come and get moving with us email me at catherine@adaptivegardens.org. Also, if you or anyone you know is interested in Horticultural Therapy, I am teaching a class for the Charleston Horticultural Society on April 10th. For more information contact Leslie Brady at http://www.charlestonhorticulturalsociety.org/ .
And, Don’t forget about the two plant sales that AGL will be participating in on April 24th! We hope to see you at Fam Jam at the Charleston Children’s Museum, downtown on April 24th, and/ or Plantasia, with the Charleston Horticultural Society, also on April 24th! So on April 24th you have two Fabulous Family Fun locations to support Adaptive Gardens of the Low country and get everything you need for your Spring vegetable garden!
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Lastly, our very own Adaptive Gardens Organic Potting Soil Mix is also for sale! Look for it at the Our Local Foods Farm Store and Sweetgrass Hardware, too!
Can't wait to see you in the gardens!
Catherine McGuinn
Horticultural Therapist and Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country
The Equinox…
March 20, 2010 | 12:30 pm
| I love the Vernal Equinox! It not only represents the start of springtime, it really sums up the mood of this time of year, in my mind! The image of the earth in equal parts light and equal part dark always seems so fitting to me.
One minute you’re crazed with Spring Fever, planting seeds with abandon and the next you’re scouring the weather reports for sign of an early spring frost, fearing you’re about to lose all your hard work! This is when I am so thankful that I get to work with all the students that participate in the Adaptive Gardens Programs. The students that come to us to learn recreational horticulture are such excited gardeners! When darkness crosses the experienced gardener, and they can only see five more weeds for every one that is pulled, the new, young, fresh gardener full of brightness and light sees every fresh bright green sprout even before it fully emerges from the soil! I think it is these great excited, new gardeners out here in the Adaptive Gardens that have single handedly chased winter away! And I, for one, try very hard this time of year to bask in their sunny glow!
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 Spring Fever! |
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If you want to come and join us in the Springtime revelry email me at catherine@adaptivegardens.org. Also, if you or anyone you know is interested in Horticultural Therapy, I am teaching a class for the Charleston Horticultural Society on April 10th. For more information contact Leslie Brady at http://charlestonhorticulturalsociety.org/ .
And, Don’t forget about the two plant sales that AGL will be participating in on April 24th! We hope to see you at Fam Jam at the Charleston Children’s Museum, downtown on April 24th, and/ or Plantasia, with the Charleston Horticultural Society, also on April 24th! So on April 24th you have two Fabulous Family Fun locations to support Adaptive Gardens of the Low country and get everything you need for your Spring vegetable garden!
Lastly, our very own Adaptive Gardens Organic Potting Soil Mix is also for sale! Look for it at the Our Local Foods Farm Store and Sweetgrass Hardware, too!
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Can’t wait to see you in the garden!
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! |
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 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! |
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 Harvesting Lettuce |
| 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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