Botany for Kids associates Grace Jackson and Grace Schmalz operate the new summer camp program at Point Loma Native Plant Garden. (Photo courtesy of Botany for Kids / Coastal Sage Gardening) Botany ...

As a mother of two, Emma Flanders found it extremely difficult to find outdoor and nature-filled activities for her kids to enjoy. Everything seemed to be an indoor, super-structured setting, a screen ...

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, every 8th grader learns to canoe in the Grand River. Milwaukee’s public school district is now home to five new greenspaces. In Austin, nature-based learning is integrated ...

When Richard Louv published a book in 2005, he coined the term nature deficit disorder. He did so “to serve as a description of the human costs of alienation from nature … as a way to talk about an ...

When Julie Ernst’s daughter was 8, she often played in a small stick fort behind their house. When Ernst went outside to get her daughter for dance class one day, she saw her “frosting” mud cupcakes. ...

Connecting kids to nature is more than just a walk in the woods! It can be a life changing experience that builds confidence resilience, and a lifelong love of the outdoors — all while inspiring ...

Although nature-based play spaces for children that include plants, trees, and rocks are growing in popularity, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support anecdotal claims that playing ...

Gardening has long been considered a simple hobby, but when families take part in it together, it becomes something much more profound. Working with soil, seeds, and plants creates valuable life ...

We recently took our children to visit to the Cayman Parrot Sanctuary and to The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park.

NORWELL ‒ The ahead-of-its-time South Shore YMCA Nature Center has been "reimagined" and is introducing itself again to the community with an updated campus and focus on what families want for their ...

OGDEN — The Ogden Nature Center is once again inviting local students to submit their art for sharing at the nature preserve and education center’s upcoming 50th Anniversary & Earth Day Celebration ...