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Tea Docents of Chado-En and Ceres Community Project Partner to Sow Seeds of The Wellness Gardens

Senior Shinto priest Rev. Koichi Barrish will conduct a blessing and purification ceremony for garden site on Aug. 27.

BODEGA BAY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011-- Wellness should be a way of life, sown and grown as tenderly and conscientiously as the most delicate of gardens. That's why Nozomu (Nez) Tokugawa and Donna Tokugawa, co-founders of Chado-En (http://www.chadoen.com), have been planting the roots for the non-profit The Wellness Gardens along with a new partner, Ceres Community Project.

As importers of fine Asian teas, Chado-En has always followed a broader mission to spur and sustain healing, wellbeing and peace. Likewise, Ceres Community Project, an award-winning nonprofit based in California's Sonoma Valley, works tirelessly to restore local, organic read more...

Gardens of healing

Therapeutic gardens help renew the body and spirit at Legacy Health System

Teresia Hazen, horticultural therapist with Legacy Health System, works with patient Pat McKenzie in the Stenzel Healing Garden at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland. Horticultural therapy is part of McKenzie’s therapy as she undergoes rehabilita- tion for a spinal cord injury. read the entire article

When Treatment Involves Dirty Fingernails

Research Finds That Horticulture Therapy Lowers Heart Rate, Improves Mood, Lessens Pain, Aiding in Healing Process

A growing number of health-care facilities—from hospitals, to elderly care programs, to mental health institutions—are embracing "horticultural therapy" programs that use gardening as part of their treatments. read the entire article