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Horticulture therapy summit planned in Iron County

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — With a little less than a month until the event, planning continues for Iron County’s upcoming horticulture therapy summit.

The summit is scheduled from March 1-3 and will be centered around the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley. The event’s registration deadline is Feb. 20.

For those who are unsure of what exactly horticulture therapy is, organizers explained it is a broad field of study regarding the use of plants and gardening to improve lives.

“It’s using gardening to improve well being … however you define well b...