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Northshore October 2025
  After traveling down, a devastating dementia-care journey and the loss of her mom in 2008, Mary E. MacDonald and her husband Karl R. Ackerman saw the need for more accessible garden experiences for people living with long-term illness and their care-partners, especially those living with memory loss. So, over the course of the next four years, the couple created seven wheelchair-accessible horticultural areas: The Cut Flower Garden, Roses & Kitchen Garden, Orchard Avenue, Ornamental Tree & Shrub Garden, Raspberry Patch, Cedar Grove & Tunnel, and Koi Pond. From April through October, Mary and Karl host the once-a-month wh
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