An experiment in Sweden

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The Skolans Uterum, or Schoolgrounds Unlimited, project in Sweden has had great success developing a network of schools to share ideas for developing schools' individual character and encouraging student activities. Originally conceived of largely as a gardening project, it now encompasses a shooting range, student-designed ponds, and a re-creation of a Viking settlement, as well as raised planting beds at an inner-city school, and reaches some 600 schools nationwide. It is also developing ties overseas to exchange ideas.

Sweden, Schools

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Isolated youth, complex issues

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Author and Macarthur Grant winner Gary Paul Nabhan is devoted to promoting biodiversity and to bringing children into contact with biology in the wild. Relatively few children in North America learn about plants and animals from their own experience or their families, and they place little value on the sort of extracurricular knowledge their grandparents had. Gardening is an excellent introduction to the reality of biology, though more adventurous experiences should follow, and both can offer needed exercise as well.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Children's gardens, Nature, Nabhan, Gary Paul

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An escape from despair

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The Garden Project helps give troubled mothers and gang members a second chance and a sense of self-esteem while improving schools and neighborhoods in San Francisco. The project's roots trace back 17 years, to when founder Catherine Sneed was trying to give women in jail an outdoor activity. Soon they were giving the vegetables they grew to local shelters, giving the women a role in the community, and eventually it moved outside. Now workers earn $5.60 an hour for four hours daily, often gardening at schools.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, Criminal rehabilitation, Rehabilitation of criminals

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