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Resources for Garden Tools for Easier Gardening

Many ergonomic gardening tools are available at your local gardening center, specialty shops or through gardening catalogs. Many gardening supply stores will special order garden supplies. Below is a listing of many companies which supply tools for gardeners. Be sure to ask about return policies before ordering.

The Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City do not endorse specific vendors.

A.M. Leonard
6665 Spiker Road
P.O. Box 816
Piqua, OH 45356
1-800-543-8955
1-800-433-0633
Access to Recreation, Inc.
2509 East Thousand Oaks Boulevard   
Suite 430
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
1-800-634-4351
Ames Lawn and Garden Tools
P.O. Box 1774
Parkersburg, WV 26102
1-800-624-2654
Adaptability
P.O. Box 515
Colchester, CT 06415
1-800-243-9232
Alsto's Handy Helpers
P.O. Box 1267
Galesburg, Illinois 61401
1-800-447-0048
Smith and Hawken
25 Corte Madera
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 383-4415
The Calais Co., Inc.
Exclusive dealer for PETA, Ltd.
5 Cold Hill Road, #12   P.O. Box 355
Mendham, N.J. 07945-0355
(201) 543-5665 (voice/Fax)
American Intertool, Inc.
1255 Tonne Road
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60007
1-800-334-3675
Good Idea
P.O. Box 955
Vail, Colorado 81658
1-800-538-6690
Walter Nicke
P.O. Box 433
36 McLeod Lane
Topsfield, MA 01983
(508) 887-3338
Brookstone Company
1655 Bassford Drive
Mexico, MO 65265
(573) 581-7113

Gardening Books

Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities, A Guide to Methods, Tools and Plants, Janeen R. Adil. Woodbine House, 6510 Bells Mill Road, Bethesda, MD 20817. 1-800-843-7323

The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age & Physical Limitations, Kathleen Yeomans, R.N. Garden Way Publishing, Storey Communications, Inc. Schoolhouse Road, Pownal, Vermont 05261

The Enabling Garden, Creating Barrier-Free Gardens(1994), Gene Rothert. Taylor Publishing

For more information about adaptive gardening, you can contact:
American Horticultural Therapy Association
326A Christopher Avenue

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879
1-800-634-1603
www.ahta.org


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