如今，世界各地的许多社区似乎通过发掘和重新想象他们乏味的院子，花园和其他共享的绿色空间来节省时间。不管你Tabula Rasamight be, it’s undeniable that gardens offer an approachable avenue to增强美学and减少粮食不安全在城市中心，以及改善人类健康以多种方式。园艺不仅将人们与他们辛苦的肥沃地联系起来，而且还可以在社区成员之间建立联系和联系Master GardenersorMaster Naturalists。即使在低洼海岸地区,bracki包围sh water and the threat of hurricanes for six months, luscious gardens are part of our landscape, and we have some beautiful historical gardens in this area to show it! Erica Deale, the Park Stewardship Coordinator, often remarks that The Mariners’ Museum Park is, “one of the most well-planned and well-documented parks that I have ever seen.” The plants, trees, shrubs, and everything in between, were planned out extensively in the 1930s, and many of those plants are still in their original locations!
大黄蜂学习花园
Though the planning of the Park was on a larger scale, at The Mariners’ Museum and Park grounds, we are lucky enough to have lovely smaller gardens and beds sprinkled around the grounds, some newer than others, including a beautiful pollinator garden built in October 2019 that has a strong community connection.
The pollinator garden, now called the大黄蜂学习花园，位于商务入口附近，与人们现在正在建造的花园空间有许多相似之处 - 从一无所有。以前，停车场之间的平淡，间质的草地空间是草地，没有太多吸引人们来探索公园地面的区域。
After a while of back and forth with the student program details, working with the local teachers from L.F. Palmer Elementary, and planning on where the program would take place in the Park, I came out on the other side with the program called大自然探险家! This sensory learning experience is focused on helping students in the third-grade to help understand the complexities of ecosystems by exploring with their senses and seeing how everything is connected in our world. When we got the point of program approval, and garden approval, it was time for the actual logistics, including the details of the pollinator garden!
当地的鹰童子军，名字叫Logan Jackson, took the garden on as his Eagle Scout candidate project– and spoiler alert– he succeeded! Logan, his volunteers, and the Museum’s staff worked quickly to build the garden for the Fall deadline. They were能够以当地供应商的捐款，甚至是公园商店堆（以前的户外项目的未使用的木材）来建立和采购大部分材料。水手博物馆和公园的戴夫·肯尼迪（Dav亚博平台网址e Kennedy）在戴夫（Dave）的船员，格雷厄姆·金（Graham King）和乔什·贝利（Josh Bailey）的帮助下创建了花园设计和指导洛根。
The garden consists of three large raised beds, one of which is made to be the height of a wheelchair so the garden could be accessible for everyone. Stones and stone dust maintained on the path around the beds also intended for accessibility.
Finally, the last station was a major effort– they kids finally were able to choose a few plants, work with a Master Naturalist (about 3-5 students per adult worked well), and then they got planting. I divided up the garden into four sections to make sure there were enough plants for each class– and believe me, there were plenty of plants to go around for the students to plant.
As one might imagine, the kids loved it! For some of the students, they had been gardening before, or even had gardens of their own, but for many more, this was the first time they had really dug into soil.一些学生甚至试图夺走一些土壤，例如粘土，因为他们以前可能没有以这种形式体验过粘土，并且对此着迷。作为地质学家，我说 - 是的！未来的沉积学家？未来的保护主义者？谢谢，麻烦您了！
将来发生了什么？
We are hoping to offer a version of this program in the future, but as most things are right now (due to COVID-19), it’s a little unclear what that might look like at this point. However, I think it’s safe to say, this outdoor sensory experience about ecosystems was a success and will be for the future. The students left with huge smiles on their faces as they made their way to the buses– and my hope is that this positive outdoor experience makes a difference in their lives.
Soga，Masashi，Kevin J. Gaston和Yuichi Yamaura。“园艺对健康是有益的：一项荟萃分析。”预防医学报告。Elsevier，2016年11月14日。https：//www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s2211335516301401。
