Articles
- 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