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  • Nurtured by Nature – Psychological research is advancing our understanding of how time in nature can improve our mental health and sharpen our cognition.
  • The Value of School Gardens – School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food.
  • Let It Grow – The long-lasting benefits of a school garden — supporting health and wellness, encouraging students to choose nutritious foods
  • The Benefits of Gardening with Children – Kids with special needs can bloom by getting their hands in the soil.
  • 25 Incredible Benefits of Gardening –  There are many proven benefits of gardening that people enjoy.
  • Kids Need Less Screen Time, More Green Time – Study shows this could boost mental well-being among children and adolescents.
  • Green Play Areas Boost Children’s immunity – Researchers found that children who played in greener outdoor spaces developed more diverse microbes on their skin and in their guts, leading to a higher level of immunity against illness.
  • Being in Nature as a Kid Is Linked to Better Mental Health in Adulthood – Growing up around greener spaces has consistently been linked to better health outcomes, and new research suggests these benefits could last a lifetime.
  • 12 Science-Backed Reasons You Should Spend More Time Outside – Psychologists and health researchers are finding more and more science-backed reasons we should spend time outside.
  • Exploring the Relationship between School Gardens, Food Literacy and Mental Well-Being – To gain an understanding of the relationships between secondary school youth experiences in school gardens and their mental well-being.
  • Urban trees found to improve mental and general health – Urban trees lower risk of developing psychological distress and promote better overall health.
  • Parks and Green Spaces Make Healthier Lives – People are likely to be healthier living close to parks and green spaces, new research shows.
  • The Curious Case of the Antidepressant, Anti-Anxiety Backyard Garden – Whether it’s microbes in the dirt or fresh air—or both—researchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine. 
  • Tune up your immune system in the garden – Gardens can also tune up your immune system, ward off depression and even make you smarter.
  • How playing in dirt boosts your health – It turns out that having dirty hands or a little grime under your fingernails isn’t always a bad thing, contact with dirt has distinct health benefits.
  • Breathing soil bacteria makes you smarter  – Scientists have observed that ingesting or breathing in a common soil bacterium found in nature reduces anxiety and improves learning.
  • Growing Little Learners – The Benefits of Gardening with Children
  • The benefits of having a school garden – gardens can shift children’s nutritional practices.
  • Health benefits of gardening for children – Gardening can have a great effect on the development of various skills and the promotion of a healthy body for children of all ages.
  • Gardening for Children – Children can learn new skills, have fun, play and develop self-confidence by spending time in the garden tending plants and growing their own food.
  • Let Your Kids Get Dirty!
  • Kids need to get dirty to be both healthy and happy – This might seem counter-intuitive in our culture, but more and more research is showing this to be true.
  • How Gardening Benefits Kids: 7 Reasons Why Your Child Should Garden
  • 6 Surprising Health Benefits of Gardening
  • How a school kitchen garden can transform an entire community
  • Let It Grow The long-lasting benefits of a school garden – Supporting health and wellness, encouraging students to choose nutritious foods
  • Your go to guide of gardening with children – From planning and craft-making to planting and harvesting
  • Local Native Plants – There are many reasons why planting native plants that are local to your area is important.
  • Planting for Biodiversity
  • How to Plant Trees – Planting right is well worth the investment to ensure your plants survive.

Reports

  • The School Garden: A Social and Emotional Place – school gardens can promote emotional and social competence
  • Gardens as Science Learning Contexts Across Educational Stages
  • Sustainable and Environmentally Concerned Citizens: Garden – Based Learning to Promote the Importance of Physical, Natural, and Social Resources
  • Greener Schoolyards, Greener Futures? Greener Schoolyards Buffer Decreased Contact With Nature and Are Linked to Connectedness to Nature
  • Does Access to Green Space Impact the Mental Well-being of Children: A Systematic Review
  • Quality Green Space Supporting Health, Well-being and Biodiversity  
  • A haven of green space: learning from a pilot pre-post evaluation of a school-based social and therapeutic horticulture intervention with children
  • Tree cover and species composition effects on academic performance of primary school students
  • Impact of School Gardening on Learning
  • Green Schoolyards can Improve Academic Outcomes
  • Nature Can Improve Academic Results
  • Needing Trees Key Findings – The Nature of Happiness 
  • Impact of School Gardening on Learning
  • The benefits of contact with nature for mental health and well-being
  • Then Child in the Garden – An evaluation review of the benefits of school gardening 
  • The Child in the Garden: An Evaluative Review of the Benefits of School Gardening
  • Association between neighbourhood green space and biological markers in school-aged children
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