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The Botanic Garden is transforming 460 acres of abandoned coal mining land into the region’s first outdoor comprehensive botanic garden and the first in the US to be built on reclaimed land. Since 2010, much work has focused on a 60-acre Woodlands that is now open to the public and includes several play stations that spark the imagination and allow visitors to connect with nature in novel ways.
The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden shares a profound concern that young people today are increasingly deprived of the benefits of outdoor play. Entertainment for most is far too passive, and nearly always involves 'watching' instead of participating. For parents who are themselves inexperienced in the joys of nature, woods are often a scary place, deemed unsafe for unsupervised activity.
The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden believes that, as a steward of the land, it has an obligation to help reverse this trend. We recognize the urgent need to reconnect people, especially children, with the natural world and are committed to prioritizing that objective as one means of addressing the deficit of nature in children's lives.
At the Garden, children learn by engaging and manipulating natural elements to develop physical skills, exercise their imagination and understand the workings of the world around them. It is a safe place to allow them to do so, one that parents can enjoy while allowing their children to explore at will.
In our efforts to reconnect people and nature, we spur imagination with places like our child-size bird nest and Storybook House. School teachers, agencies and visitors from other cultural insititutions have commented on their need to adopt our nature play themes and stations and build them at other places so that other audiences become engaged. Our work building connections between the children and nature also delights the adults who accompany the children.
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