Oral history interview with Lisa Hoare
Title
Oral history interview with Lisa Hoare
Description
Lisa Hoare discusses her experiences as a garden educator at the University of Vermont Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes the grant-funded Gardening for Health Program that she developed with Michelle Gates (former executive director of the Vermont Garden Network) and Michael Latreille (an adult primary care physician in Burlington, Vermont). She also explains the social distancing measures which allowed them to proceed with the program in 2020 and 2021. They were located outdoors on the rooftop of the University of Vermont Medical Center and limited the number of participants in a class to fourteen. She expresses the role the program played for many participants in allowing them to get out of the house and socialize but also recalls some challenges from implementing it during the pandemic. For instance, there was sometimes difficulty communicating through masks and some participants needed to take additional precautions against potential exposure to COVID.
Lisa R. Hoare directed the University of Vermont Medical Center's Gardening for Health Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. She studied at Vermont Technical College (the Vermont State University Randolph Campus), completing an associate's degree in landscape development and ornamental horticulture in 2010. She began working for UVM's Learning Garden Program starting around 2013.
The Gardening for Health Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center was designed to teach patients, particularly diabetics, about how gardening could improve their health. It was initially funded in 2020 and 2021 by a grant through the UVM Foundation. In their third year, they were funded partially by another grant and partially by the Cancer Center and the Comprehensive Pain Clinic at UVM Medical Center.
Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.
Lisa R. Hoare directed the University of Vermont Medical Center's Gardening for Health Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. She studied at Vermont Technical College (the Vermont State University Randolph Campus), completing an associate's degree in landscape development and ornamental horticulture in 2010. She began working for UVM's Learning Garden Program starting around 2013.
The Gardening for Health Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center was designed to teach patients, particularly diabetics, about how gardening could improve their health. It was initially funded in 2020 and 2021 by a grant through the UVM Foundation. In their third year, they were funded partially by another grant and partially by the Cancer Center and the Comprehensive Pain Clinic at UVM Medical Center.
Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.
Date
2024-08-06
Subject
Source
Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project
Identifier
AudioFileCOVID-038
Format
MP3
WAV
Type
Audio file
Rights
Permission to publish material from the Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project may be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.
Interviewer
Johnson, Mark
Interviewee
Hoare, Lisa R.
Duration
45 min., 30 sec.
Repository
Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4215
Collection
Citation
“Oral history interview with Lisa Hoare,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed April 4, 2025, https://digitalvermont.org/vtcovid/AudioFileCOVID-038.