Local Gardener Plants Seeds of Hope with Her Nonprofit

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Byline: Profile by The Register-Guard

Name: Maggie Matoba, 48, Eugene.

Claim to fame: Started Healing Harvest in May 2002. It's a local nonprofit organization dedicated to horticulture therapy - using plants and plant-related activities to help victims of domestic violence, abuse and trauma, at-risk youth, and those facing mental and physical challenges.

`Sense of purpose': Healing Harvest has gardens in five locations - at the River Kourt Apartments in north Eugene, where survivors of traumatic brain injuries in ShelterCare's Uhlhorn program live; Looking Glass Youth Services Evaluation Treatment Center; Womenspace; and Willamette Oaks and Sheldon Oaks …