If I could wave my magic wand to make our world safer, sustainable and more harmonious, I would wish that every child be a gardener. If every child were a gardener, they would enjoy a sense of wellbeing – physically, inwardly, deeply and reverently. If every child were a gardener, they would care for and nourish the soil, making it healthy, and enriching the microbes that support the plants that become our food, nourishing us and other life forms.
A gardener takes a seed and places it in the soil, adding the precious resource of water, ensuring sunshine and warmth are in the mix, and then ...
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