Social, Community and Therapeutic Horticulture

The module aims to introduce students to the growing area of social, community and therapeutic horticulture. It explores how horticulture can be used to promote social inclusion, community engagement, health and well-being, as well as promoting recovery. The module is broken into two distinct elements: a practical element where students will learn how to correctly grow and harvest plants and the theoretical element where student will gain an understanding in the conceptual frameworks and theories that govern social, community, therapeutic gardening.  

1. To differentiate between the various theories and concepts of social and therapeutic horticulture.

2. To demonstrate the skills needed for sustainable fruit and vegetable crop production.

3. To identify the various pedagogies and facilitative techniques for use with a multitude of different service users.    

4. To describe the key components needed for an authentic person centred model of care.   

5. To design and plan a person-centred social and therapeutic horticulture programme.