The Providential Gardener loves hearing about "No Child Left Inside" efforts.* Sanne Kure-Jensen, a Rhode Island landscape professional and great news source herself, sent along this link sent to her..... Here is an article written by the man who wrote the book on the subject.
See this Orion Magazine article "No Child Left Inside," published in 2007, by Richard Louw.
And speaking of children, I'll mention again the Children's Garden Network, which aims to have gardens at every school and youth organization throughout Rhode Island by 2010. Visitors to the Garden Show are responding enthusiastically to the program ~ clearly a good idea whose time has come. Let's help them make their goal, but also do what we can to see that these gardens are sustained over time.
*"The growing movement to reconnect children and nature, and to battle 'nature deficit disorder'"
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