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Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Green therapy comes to Oakland’s Fairyland (Community Voices)

Seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, smelling – particularly for kids with special needs, a garden is a wonderland of sensual stimuli. Plants can be used to enhance social, physical and psychological well-being; the therapeutic benefits of garden environments have been documented since ancient times. Now there’s a name for it – horticultural therapy – and it’s