Clean North and the Sault Naturalists strongly support schools and childcare facilities creating or augmenting a garden. The benefits of gardening and exposing children to nature are many. If we can foster love and care for the natural world in children, they will hopefully grow up to become the next generation of keen gardeners and environmental stewards.
It can be challenging for educators to create/augment a garden as they may not have a background in gardening or natural resources. We created a gardening guide to support schools and childcare facilities in gardening with children.
FYI this guide may be updated from time to time, so we recommend you save the link to this page and access it here rather than downloading the PDF to your hard drive.
Questions? Email info@cleannorth.org.