PARC Enabling Garden
How does our Garden Grow? PARC’s Enabling Garden flourishes thanks to the caring Illinois Master Gardener volunteers!
Peoria County Master Gardener volunteers are trained by the University of Illinois Extension educators in gardening programs and horticultural activities. In turn, these volunteers go out into their communities and work with various groups to provide a variety of gardening programs and horticultural activities to educate the public and enhance life in their communities. For more information on the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener program visit the Peoria County website at
www.extension.uiuc.edu/peoria.
Horticulture therapy uses live plants and horticultural activities to improve the quality of life for PARC participants through increased self-esteem, improved motor skills, help with problem solving, social interaction, and communication. The PARC Enabling Garden offers participants cognitive benefits through classes and informational projects, sensory benefits through the sights and smells of the garden, and physically therapeutic benefits gained from growing and tending the plants.
For more information on the PARC Enabling Garden, contact Sibylle LaHood at (309) 689-3608.
Visit the PARC Enabling Garden Wish List!
Doctors, therapists, teachers, chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs - what do these all have in common? They have a green thumb and as part of the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners program they are helping the PARC Enabling Garden grow! Volunteer with the PARC Enabling Garden!
View the Spring 2008 Enabling Garden Class Schedule
