1993_03 The Daily Collegian March 1993

              Monday, March 8.J993
The Daily Collegian
News — 5
lessons provide therapy
Horticulture helps
_womenatYWCA\
gain self-esteem
By Cindy Starbird
Suffwriter
Women seeking, shelter ar the
YWCA can gain valuable therapy
and training through gardening.
Master gardener JoAnne Kinzel
teaches a series of crafts lessons
and gardening to the women as a
technique in horticulture therapy.
The classes are taught through
the Master Gardener program, a
division of Agriculture and Natu¬
ral Resources, through the Univer¬
sity of California's Cooperative
Extension program. v
„ The Master Gardeners program
started in Seattle in 1978, andjpro-
• grams are taught through coopera¬
tive education in almost every
county in the country. L
The program is designed to ex¬
tend beneficial information that is
generated at universities to farm¬
ers and their families.
It is also designed to help women
gather up their self-esteem and
make them feel better about them¬
selves, Kinzel said.
"A lot of people think that just
because these women are down
and out that theydon't have any
inzel "Most of these
women are very talented."
The underlying principle in gar¬
dening therapy is to give these
women a sense of accomplishment,
she said.
"The therapy is in watching
things grow and nurturing somej
thing," Kinzel said. "Plants are non-
threatening; they don't ask you to
do anything but water them.*
This therapy also gives them
techniques in survival, by showing
them that they can be self-suffi¬
cient, she said.
All of the vegetables and flow-.
ers that are grown in the garden at
the YWCA are then consumed by
the women, or used in their craft
projects.
Among other vegetables, Kinzel
likes to grow food such as bean
sprouts that have quick results; in
three to four days they can be eaten.
"Some of the women are in the
Marjorie Mason Center, and you
just don't know if they're still go1
ing to be there from one week to
the next," Kinzel said. "It's nice to
grow things that the women can
actually use."*
Because of the women's finan-
'Indulgences'
From page 1
magic that goes on (at the festi¬
vals). I'm excited to fee! that again."
McGoldrick and Espinosa per¬
formed a two-and-a-half minute
scene and McGoldrick did a two-
and-a-half minute monologue to
win the award. They will repeat
their performance at the Kennedy
Center.
Also honored at the Las Vegas
festival were Scott Tukloff and
Matt El kins, who were selected
along with three others for best
performance in a production com¬
peting at the festival; JanenePettus,"
c i al situations, a lot of their eating
habits aren't very good, she said.
Kinzel has taught classes on
cooking with herbs, which is
healthy for them and inexpensive
if they grow their own.
Gardening therapy has been ap¬
plied in various situations through¬
out the United States.
Ida Cousino is the program di¬
rector for a 15-acre garden in Los
Angeles.
This valuable property is located
in the Westwood area of Los An¬
geles and is owned by the Veteran' s
Administration.
Cousino works with the veter¬
ans, who most often are drug or
alcohol dependent
Some of the parti ci pants in this
program grow baby vegetables and
sell them to trendy restaurants in
the area, which pay high prices for
them.
In essence, they pay for their
own therapy, Cousino said.
KiniW said gardening therapy
also oneTra^better quality of life
for the elders' in the community.
'It gives them something to look
forward to, a hope," said Kinzel.
"Some people have even held off
death because they needed to see
their flower bloom or their veg-
etaWes^prout." J
The Master Gardener program
is conducted by volunteers, but
there isaselection process; notjust-
anyone can be a volunteer.
"There is an interview process
and selection committee that the
volunteers have to go through,"
said Pam Elam, coordinator ofthe
program.
"If suitable, they then have to go
through a 50-hour training period,"
she said.
The training period is 3 to 4
hours a week and lasts for several
weeks. In return for the free train¬
ing, the Master Gardeners give back
the same amount of time in volun-
teer programs such as the one at the
YWCA.
Other activities sponsored by
Master Gardeners are a hot-line in
which people call with questions
about their gardening problems,
and plant clinics through the li¬
brary system. .
Kennel Bookstore
Photo savings
who was a finalist for her lighting
designs for "Electra" and "El Hajj
Malik;" and the "Best Load In"
award and trophy to the crew of
"Indulgences."
The trip to Washington will be
completely paidforby the Kennedy
Center. . i
"Indulgences" was originally
performed in November at CSUF.
It is about'two spinster sisters find¬
ing love from a mail-order cata¬
logue in 1902.
The sisters are played by
McGoldrick and Mendy G arc i a an d
their loves by Tukloff and Elkins.
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