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Nova Scotia concentrate
Rich in Benefits!
Projects by the hour!
Garden, landscaping
design! |
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| Helping Nature Heal is invited to take part in the Earth Day Native Plant Sale at Acadia University's Botanical Gardens.
Let's make it a wonderful day and join Rosmarie for the festivities! She'll be there from 8 am - 5pm, April 21, and would love to see you there!
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| Horticulture Therapy Another milestone
Through much hard work and dedication, Rosmarie is now good-to-go to create Horticulture Therapy programs and/or assess
them from the point of view of both facilitators and clients anywhere in Canada.
Since taking the Level III course in '06, she's spent the last year developing and delivering programs at Harbour View Haven and creating and delivering a program for Second Story Women's Centre. Her support of both are ongoing. |
| Workshops in May |
e-news subscribers get early head's up for May 3, 10, 24 & 31:
Garden Planning and Design Workshops
Participants to work out their landscape issues - with the help of Rosmarie.
She'll be sending you out with homework - to take photos, measurements, etc.
After the final session, you'll have a complete package: the design, action plan and budget.
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| HNH Maritime Distributor! |
| HNH partners with Pure Prairies Ornamental Grasses
The beautifully packaged seeds are available locally at these outlets:
- Kitchen Witch, 599 King Street, Bridgewater, 543-9928 - check out their new store!
- Branch Tree Nursery 500 Bruhm Road, Branch LaHave 543-3836
- Through HNH online at Nature's Store or at the office - please call ahead. They'll be pleased to deliver to clients!
Rosmarie is looking for retail space for display units, interested parties, please contact her.
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| The colour of new life at HNH reforestation project |
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Greetings!
 April is so exciting - all the staff is back, and well on the way is spring clean up - removing winter protection, tidying the beds and early cutting back.
We're planting bulbs ... Frost-tolerant plants are heading into the ground from the greenhouse ... we're doing early transplanting - out of the infirmary back into their home gardens.
We're choosing trees at the Organic Tree Farm then delivering, and re-planting hundreds of them on the land.
We're so looking forward to re-connecting with all of our clients and sharing in the excitement of watching things grow!
Happy gardening!
Rosmarie Bradley |
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HNH Feature Garden
Coastal forest restoration
Challenges: Hurricane damage, clear cutting, soil erosion and loss of habitat
Advantages: replanting the forest, creating walking trails, stabilizing soil structure, creating new habitats. |
 Soil Foodweb
Lab tests the life in soil
Late in March, I was delighted to attend a daylong workshop hosted by Soil Foodweb. Here are some thoughts I wrote later that evening:
"I learned a lot today, and all of it reaffirmed that HNH is doing the best thing for our soil. Manure and mulch is a wonderful combination and provides for bacteria and fungi to live happily in the soil structure, working to feed the plants and rebuild what has been lost by erosion and development damage.
"We've been doing it intuitively, out of old-fashioned teachings at Windhorse Farm, the science at university, life's experience, and time spent in the woods observing nature ....
"Soil Foodweb provides the science to back it all up."
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 Dream come true
HNH meets Conservation Horticulturist for Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens
Conservation horticulturist Melanie Priesnitz gave us an amazing tour and a behind-the-scenes look at the botanical records area, where we met the scientist saving plant samples. She showed us a Yarrow plant sample that was catalogued in 1919....it was wonderful to see my dream landscapes come to life in a man-made setting.
I saw a massive boulder with lichens, moss grasses and neighbouring small trees, thriving in a small, fully functional ecosystem. I've done it myself with limited success, now I know it can be done, that I can help re-create damaged ecosystems...
Melanie also invited us to have a booth with all our information and supplies, seeds, kelp, etc.
during the Celebrate Earth Day festivities.
There will be several other vendors and lots of native plants for sale... I'm very excited to go!
Hope to see you there - April 21 10am-2pm at the KC Irving Environmental Science Centre
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Garden Landscape News
Busy month ahead
April 2 - First official day back at work for the staff.
April 5 - Greenhouse Gardening Workshop, 5 - 8 pm (supper provided). Please register through Second Story Womens Centre 902-640-3044.
April 12 - Planting by the Moon Workshop with Maria Keisling at Second Story Womens Centre.
April 19 - Our first Horticulture Therapy drop in night, 5-8 pm, at Second Story Women's Centre. Everyone is welcome to come in, work with the plants, visit our garden library, enjoy the music, do some crafts, seeds are available for planting.
April 21 - Earth Day Plant Sale at Acadia University Botanical Gardens. Please see Dream Come True story for details.
April 22 - Enjoy Nature on Earth Day!
April 26 - Horticulture as Therapy information session 5-8 pm at Second Story Women's Centre.
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 Mother's Day gift certificates
May 13
For the gardener in your family, gift certificates are available from Helping Nature Heal in any amount.
They can be used towards consultations, design, labour, or shopping at Nature's Store ...
As for Dad, not to worry, Father's Day is in June!
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