APU Healing Garden Program

12/22/2025

I’ve got a super talented cousin who makes beautiful jewelry! So stoked to see her in her element yesterday at a craft fair in Oakland and pick up some beautiful rings

08/02/2025

08/02/2025

Potting seeds in an ALF

08/02/2025

Remembering our therapeutic salad patch in the garden

04/06/2024

I’m at the Spring Community Event in Menlo Park today 10-1pm. Burgess Park

10/14/2023

THIS Friday is the National American Horticultural Therapy Assn Conference - all virtual - meaning all presentations are pre-recorded and you will have 60 days to watch any and all of them. Have you signed up for the conference yet? Do it Today! And remember if you're a student it's just $25
https://www.ahta.org/2023-ahta-annual-conference
Info below!

Hope to see you there!
April Ellis

AHTA 2023: 50 Years of Cultivating Horticultural Therapy will be virtual this year! The virtual format for AHTA 2023 will certainly be different, but it creates the opportunity to reach a more expansive group of horticultural therapists from around the world. The conference format will use technolog...

09/14/2023

https://blog.gardenuity.com/horticultural-therapy-the-guide/

We explore the concept of horticultural therapy, its historical origins, examine examples of success, and so much more!

09/13/2023

Hope you'll join us on the 30th, enjoy our beautiful therapy garden, 18 months in the making. I'm so excited to share it with you!

08/29/2023

Hotdiggety! Our therapy garden has been accepted to The Portola Garden Tour
September 30th, 2023 10am-3pm
An annual tour of the gardens of southeast San Francisco.
What a better way to spend an afternoon! Get your tickets today!

An annual tour of the gardens of southeast San Francisco

08/14/2023

Join us for our monthly Consultation Group - Bring your accomplishments, questions, concerns, issues, or curiosities re: HT practice. This is a place to get peer support, talk through an issue, share something you're proud of, ask for resources, and so much more!

This month we're doing it again on SATURDAY! RSVP below. Looking forward to celebrating summer and our HT work with you.

Kindly RSVP here:
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08/04/2023

We were so pleased to have our first international visitor! Horticultural therapist Karen joined us from Scotland