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Amargia wrote:
Below is a list of websites and books that may be helpful.
WEBSITES
Information on outdoor mobility options:
http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/mobility.html
A Perkins School for the Blind web page providing numerous links on subjects of interest to visually impaired gardeners.
http://www.perkinselearning.org/scout/gardening-and-horticul...
Thrive is an organization in the U.K. Their website gives practical advice on gardening despite a wide variety of physical challenges from blindness to having a weak grip.
http://www.carryongardening.org.uk/
AgrAbility is an organization for disabled farmers and ranchers. This is an excellent site for disabled persons who want to continue living the rural life.
http://fyi.uwex.edu/agrability/about/
Gardening from a wheelchair.
http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.mtKZKgMWKwG/b.5300837...
BOOKS
---Accessible Gardening: Tips & Techniques for Seniors by Joann Woy : This book is very comprehensive dealing with visual impairment, mobility issues and more subtle problems such as poor balance.
--Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities by Janeen R. Adil—This book contains a useful list of the best vegetable cultivars for container growth.
--The Enabling Garden: A Guide to Lifelong Gardening by Gene Rother—Some of the recommendations on raised bed building material is outdated. Otherwise, this book has stood the test of time.
--The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age and Physical Limitations by Kathleen Yeoman: A good book for beginning gardeners and for those gardening on the west coast.
--The Bird Song Tutor for Visually Handicapped Individuals is available as a cassette book in most libraries and through the NLS program as a download. It was produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Please share links to websites you found useful. We will add them to the list. Also, the title and author of any book on the subject of gardening with physical challenges we missed would be appreciated.
mk*
Photo #1: This is why we call this long, narrow bed the Butterfly Landing Strip. It is the lantana and Chinese Chaste Tree drawing them in mid-June.
Photo #2: Daylily ‘Vino di Notte’