Wednesday, October 2

Thursday, October 3

Registration Open

Offsite Pre-tours:

Pre-tour #1 - Frederik Meijer Gardens | Mast Young Greenhouses | River Walk Experience

Pre-tour #2 - Blandford Nature Center | Benjamin's Hope | Lake Michigan Experience

AHTA Internship Supervisor's Workshop

Silent Auction Opens
Join us for a bit of silent fun! Throughout the conference, we will have several items available for you to bid on for the Silent Auction. This is a great way to buy your souvenirs from the conference and help further support AHTA. We accept credit card and check payments only for these items. 

Birds of a Feather Networking Session
Join us for a meet-up networking session and meet fellow attendees of similar interests in horticultural therapy. 

Friday, October 4

AHTA Silent Auction (see posted hours)

Come Meet the Family: A Look at Interesting and Useful Plants for HT Programs

Matthew J. Wichrowski

Learning to Read Research Critically

Barb Kreski

Saturday, October 5

AHTA Silent Auction (see posted hours)

General Session - Plenary
Levi Gardener

Boots 2 Roots PDX: Veteran Therapeutic Horticulture and Urban Agricultural Training

Scott Hoffman

Cultivating the Soul: Gardening on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit

Ariel Schneider; Nancy Wicks; Susan Clinton

Constant Refinement: A Collaborative Approach to Mental Health Interventions

Jonathan Irish

Effects of Horticulture on Frail and Prefrail Nursing Home Residents:  A Randomized Controlled Trial

Dr. Claudia K.Y. Lai; Connie Fung Yuen Yee;

Therapeutic Garden Design and Programming Workshop

Brian Bainnson; Melissa Bierman

Journey to Well-being: A Nature-based Practice using Japanese Gardens

Rachel Deffenbaugh;
Jeanne Carbone

Creating with Nature by the Michigan Horticultural Therapy Association

Cathy Flinton and Mary Machon

Closing Remarks