Gardening As Cancer Intervention: APT Highlights Innovative Harvest For Health Program Aug. 5

Alabama News Center | August 5, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Maggie Smith
Auburn University

When Alabama Public Television airs the seventh episode in its “Spotlight on Agriculture” series Monday, Aug. 5, at 9 p.m., it will place the spotlight on a cancer intervention program that has changed the lives of hundreds of Alabama residents.

Harvest for Health was initiated in 2011 with 12 cancer survivors and 14 gardening mentors. By 2021, the study will have involved more than 500 survivors and patients from all parts of the state, thanks to grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.

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