Community Corner
Ergonomic Gardening--Presented by Marilyn Fishman at the monthly Horticultural Society of SJ Meeting
"Ergonomic Gardening.” a program by Marilyn Fishman,
will be featured at
the monthly Horticultural Society of South Jersey meeting on Tuesday,
April
8, 2014 at 7:00 pm at
the Carmen
Tilelli Community Center, 820 Mercer Street, Cherry Hill, NJ
08002.
She will
share her recent
research on ergonomics for gardeners and gardening with arthritis. Her focus
will be on how you can protect against repetitive stress injuries while working
in the garden. “Ergonomic” has become common in the description of gardening
tools, and she will share her ergonomic tools as well as discuss what to look
for in buying a “true” ergonomic gardening tool. Marilyn is a Rutgers Master
Gardener of Burlington County who has worked over forty years in
Informational Science and Technology. She is an HSSJ member and is editor of
the HSSJ newsletter.
Free and open to the public. For more
information visit the website www.HSSJ.org.