School nature garden

Spending time in the garden can awaken the senses of touch, smell, and taste, and attune a child to the subtler sights and sounds of nature.

Develop a sense of ownership for the green spaces in your school grounds through surveys and attract biodiversity to your school through greening with biodiversity-attracting plants

At Hand Made Places, we’ve created a free guide to designing sensory gardens for school playgrounds for unusual and inclusive school gardening club ideas.

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, offer an impressive array of social activities, summer camps, family events, and field trips

We're lucky parents; the moment spring arrives, our kids are ready and raring to get outside and enjoy the warm sun and the nice weather. Now, they're not

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“There are some great benefits to teaching and learning in an outdoor setting.” ~ Professor Lisa Greer Washington and Lee’s newly constructed outdoor classroom opened for use at the beginning…

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“Doing something like this by yourself would be really hard. Don’t be afraid to reach out and look for those grants and fundraising opportunities. If we wouldn’t have looked for it, had we not been willing to take the risk, we wouldn’t have the opportunity.”