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Farming therapy and skills

June 17th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

The Farm at Cedar Woods offers farm worker and food preparation training, along with therapeutic horticulture

Cedar Woods Farm—located in Cedar, B.C.—describes itself as a 28 acre healing environment; it offers horticultural therapy and training programs for people with barriers. The Farm uses chemical-free methods to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in a fenced three acre market garden and a barrier-free herb garden. Program participants learn and work in a socially supportive environment. The Farm works to model a mutually supportive, nurturing community guided by principles of empowerment and sustainability.

We’re joined in the studio by farm director Guy Langlois, student Ruth McLellan, and farm buddy Chikako Murphy.

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Image: Students working on the Cedar Woods Farm. (Courtesy McSeeds Society)

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