[Rejuvenate] Horticultural Therapy: Getting Started in the Vegetable Garden

Spring is the time to get the garden ready for planting and even start some cold tolerant plants. This talk, with Master Gardner Nancy Lee-Colibaba, will help the novice get started growing their own vegetables including how to prepare the space, what plants to grow and what seeds to start.  Nancy will also touch on the topic of horticultural therapy, how working with plants and people benefit physical, social and cognitive abilities.

About our speaker:

Nancy Lee-Colibaba was raised on a farm in Norfolk county and developed a love of plants at an early age. She went on to hone her skills at Niagara College, Guelph University and Humber College.

In the early 1980’s, she joined the Royal Botanical Gardens and furthered her education in the field of Horticultural Therapy, joining the Master Gardeners in 1984. She enjoys teaching horticulture and horticultural therapy, and continues to learn and pass on that knowledge now that she is retired, as well as maintaining her perennial and vegetable gardens at home.