What is Horticulture?

~ Horticulture is the agriculture of plants

mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty, for decoration

 

~Horticulturists apply knowledge, skills, and technologies

to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs

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~Horticulture is divided into the cultivation of plants

for food (pomology and olericulture) and plants for ornament (floriculture and landscape horticulture)

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~ Horticulture is an application science – the science developed by horticulturists is applied to plant production, improvement, marketing and the enhancement of Earth’s human

and animal life.

 

 

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Northeast Horticulture Therapy Network

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Social and Therapeutic Horticulture

 

Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is about supporting and developing people to improve their mental and physical health through gardening.

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Nauset Garden Club offers Garden Therapy spending gardening time with the residents of the Latham Center in Brewster.

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