The 2009 ASHS Annual Conference

Objective(s):
The workshop will present information that demonstrates that the connection between horticulture and health is an extension of ancient and medieval concerns.

Horticulture and health is one of the burgeoning fields of horticultural research as a result of the increasing interest in diet for a healthy lifestyle.  Although ancient medicine was based on a completely different cosmology than present-day medicine, horticultural crops were valued both as medicine and food, although in most cases the reasons are different from present-day nutrition and pharmacology.