Medicine Garden Tour

On Saturday morning June 15th, a group of AMWA-NE chapter members along with some of their families gathered at Elizabeth Park's Annual Rose Weekend festivities in Hartford, CT to network and view the beautiful gardens. The weather was perfect! We gathered our chairs and blankets in a shady spot and chatted over coffee and pastries getting to know one another and discussing our journeys into medical writing. We then attended an hour-long tour of the medicine garden led by Dr. Dayne Laskey, Pharm.D., a member of the faculty at The University of St. Joseph's College of Pharmacy who with the help of his students started the garden in 2014. The purpose for the garden is to educate the general public on the role plants play in the development of medicines and how that process works. Dr. Laskey deftly intertwined the historical context of drug development along with some levity.  Following the tour, several attendees stayed to view the many other garden beds including the numerous varieties of roses that were in bloom. The consensus of the group was that AMWA-NE should consider offering this event next year.

Six adults posing against a background of blue sky and blooming rose bushes

The Medicine Garden, showing Saint John's Wort and Yew.