Want to raise kids with a strong connection to nature? You don’t need to look any further than your backyard, according to a new study from the Horticultural Sciences department at Texas A&M University.
Researchers
at the school looked at whether or not formal, hands-on youth gardening
programs had any effect on elementary students’ environmental
consciousness.
Study results indicated that children that had
any type of experience with gardening – and 80 percent of them had had
previous experience before the gardening program that was studied --
had more positive attitudes toward the environment when compared with
students that had not gardened in any setting.
Researchers
concluded that hands-on gardening activities are important to the
development of environmentally concerned citizens. Interestingly,
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