Accessible Gardening for the Physically Challenged
For many people, gardening is a therapeutic activity, providing hours of relaxation and contemplation. But as we age, even some of the simplest tasks, like planting flowers or weeding, become difficult due to arthritis, back injuries and other health problems. Injuries caused by accidents and other physical limitations also pose challenges to gardeners.
The answer is not to give up gardening but to change how you do it. This may mean buying different tools, planting in raised beds or containers or redesigning garden paths for easier movement.
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What is a Healing Garden?"A healing Garden is a place of quiet beauty in a private world of our making."
Designing Healing Gardens
When designing healing gardens, use the same considerations as you would when designing any other garden but there are are few specific ideas you'll need to take into consideration when designing a healing garden.
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National Organic ProgramCSA, Community Supported Agriculture, is a partnership of mutual commitment between a farm and a community of supporters which provides a direct link between the production and consumption of food. Supporters cover a farm's yearly operating budget by purchasing a share of the season's harvest.
National Organic Program
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C.S.A's.Farmers, processors and handling operators seeking organic certification can be certified and inspected annually by accredited organizations at the state and local level.
Currently, a variety of both state and private certifiers carry out such activities and organic product certification, although accreditation of organic certifiers is not required in all states. |
The Enabled Garden
Select bedding or raised bed locations close to your home, near the front and back doors.
Your garden paths should be level or sloped no more than one inch every foot (this applies to your home ramps also!) and will have to be paved for wheelchair use.
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When an accident happens, how will you continue to produce?
Do you sell the farm because an accident has left you an amputee or permanently in a wheelchair?
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Able Farm and Ranch,
our Sister Group
"Handi-Able" is the theme for our farming and ranching group. Amputee to wheelchair persons are a Can-Do commodity. You don't need acres to be a rancher, farmer or gardener to off-set limited incomes!
Whether you are new or old to ranching or farming you can raise animals for fun or profit. Learn how to maintain a cash crop to off set your limited income.
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Welcome
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Gardening!
Many disabled and senior persons feel that they can't grow a vegetable garden due to either a lack of space or a perceived inability due to their disability.
If you live in an apartment, condominium or even in a mobile home, you too can have a garden to off-set limited monthly incomes from SSI or SSD.
We'll show you how to grow most anything from containers or we can help you make your own garden from a table that is very accessible to wheelchair gardeners.Join us to learn how you CAN garden.
There's more to an "enabled garden" than just raised beds!
Gardens for the Visually Impaired
Think you know your garden? How about taking the blindfold test? Just be sure to have a family member or friend close at hand, as a spotter,
should you attempt this.
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The Disabled's Poultry ProductionFor the disabled or senior, poultry is one of the first types of livestock that beginning farmers consider. Small scale poultry farming can be profitable with little investment and it also provides a good cash flow.
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Low Allergy Gardens With the onset of winter, garden catalogs will soon begin to fill long cold and dreary days by the fireplace; having you dreaming of spring and what to plant in your garden. Unfortunately, for those with Asthma or allergies; we dream of having a garden that won`t have us sneezing our heads off or eyes so watery that Niagra Falls resembles a drippy water faucet! Everything we plant in our yard has a direct bearing on our health.
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Accessible Farming for the Physically Challenged
Accessible Farming means you need to know your limitations.... and then eliminate those limitations!
First, you need to ask yourself: "What has your disability proven to be difficult?" Don't become frustrated because something that was easier once before has become impossible (at the moment) to over come.
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Farmer's Market
Types of Marketing:
Hobbyist: Generally casual ie: weekend farmers' market.
Commercial Direct Marketing: Requires an interest and some skill in dealing with people as well as the product or commodity.
Commercial Retailer Marketing: Requires a quality product with some uniqueness and continuing availability.
Commercial Wholesale Marketing: Sell to distributors or through brokers.
Commercial Processing Market: Generally under contract with the processor.
Commercial Consignment Marketing: Requires a willingness to sacrifice the amount of product involved and/or to remove the unsold portion. to get a potential buyer to try your commodity or product.
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