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Sense of Place Home

At Home In My Community In My Bio-Region Within the Larger Earth Community In the Universe Sense of Place Video Register At Home

Earth supports our being here. The home we live in is our habitat which nourishes and restores us. What is our relationship with our habitat? Nourishing and restoring our place on Earth can be as simple as planting a garden.

"By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. take time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean--the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams." Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder
The Dana Meadows Organic Children's Garden
This garden grows more than vegetables!

 

Karen Harwell remembered her delight as a child spending time in the neighborhood victory garden. Her experience in the garden connected her to community, to the Earth and to the cycles of life. In the Spring of 2000 she designated a portion of her front yard as the children’s garden and invited the kids on the block to enjoy it.

It has become a place where the neighborhood children and their families can connect to each other and the Earth. This garden is about relationships. Everyone is free to take on garden responsibilities, or not, witness the miracles of the growing process, experience the wonder of life and enjoy the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the garden.

 

As Karen explains, "Through gardening children can experience how the Earth works… the interconnectedness of everything. The garden is a way for young people to experience awe and wonder.”

"Gardening is an active participation in the mysteries of the universe. By gardening, our children learn that they constitute, with all growing things, a single community of life."
Thomas Berry

 

We can only imagine what else is growing in the hearts of the children on Dana Avenue because one woman remembered her connection.

 

Garden of delights
Dana Avenue yard gives neighborhood kids a place to blossom
Jocelyn Dong, Palo Alto Weekly, May 21, 2003

Regaining the 'Heart's Delight': Peninsula group works to reconnect people with the fertile land once known as the Valley of Heart's Delight
Renee Batti from The Almanac, August 1, 2001
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