by Chris Shaw Sanford October is here, and while most people may be done thinking about their garden for the year, at Helping Nature Heal we are busy again after the late summer lull. Curious about what we are up to? Check out my fall course offerings- they all relate to the fall garden activities… [Read More]
Garden Mentoring
Imagine that you’ve moved to your retirement home, a dreamy piece of property on a hilly cove of the South Shore, and you’ve hired a restorative landscaping company to add greenery, texture, places for the dogs to play, a wildflower meadow, a vegetable garden… The result is a verdant work-in-progress. It’s cut down on a… [Read More]
Books and Cuttings
Last weekend Rosmarie and I manned an HNH booth at the Native Plant Sale at Acadia University. Jodi DeLong was there as well and we picked up a shipment of her book Plants for Atlantic Gardens: Handsome and Hardworking Shrubs, Trees, and Perennials for the HNH shop. Having taken HNH’s sustainable landscape design class this… [Read More]
Making a Plan
Chris Sanford Checks my Design-in-Progess Before I started working at HNH, I took the Sustainable Landscape Design Course with Chris and Rosmarie. It was a great introduction to the educational component of the company. Their second spring session is now full, but keep your eye out for other workshops. Over the years, I’ve fallen… [Read More]
Sustainable Landscape Design Course
With Rosmarie Lohnes, B.A. Helping Nature Heal is happy to offer another session of this popular course. Classes run Wednesday evenings (6:30-9 PM), January 9th – February 13th 2019, and again from March 13th – April 17th. During this 6 week course you will complete the entire landscape design process, from site analysis to final… [Read More]