Gardens for Heroes Information

Gardens For Heroes mission is to foster the well-being and success of veterans and their families through the gift of gardens. Its purpose is to honor service, heal wounds and create opportunities through therapeutic and social horticulture. Our programs include the creation of private gardens at the homes of military families, public gardens in their communities, and a veteran horticulture work program. Walter Reed National Medical Hospital has been a leader in using therapeutic gardens to heal our wounded veterans. Gardens For Heroes extends and continues that healing process after veterans are released from the hospital and return home. The benefits to the veteran, their family and their community are substantial and long lasting. These benefits reach well beyond individual healing into community development and economic impact on a national scale. With public and private partnerships, we are developing solutions for urban reclamation, food desert solutions and job creation.