Brainstorm and Share: How could your organization incorporate green spaces or nature areas (even small ones!) into your programs? by GrowingGreat https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu Post your response to the discussion topic by clicking the plus button below. en-us 2025-07-21 18:10:19 UTC 2025-09-06 21:08:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863614 Partner with our city parks

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863850 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863862 Adding trails or nature playgrounds. Creating a rooftop area would be great - we just identified the roof as a possible expansion area at one of our facilities.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863862 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863885 Starting a small herb garden in our Outdoor Learning Lab that we can then use for our 5-6 cooking summer camp! :)

]]> 2025-09-06 20:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863885 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863896 Creating an urban mini garden patch

Observing what wildlife shows up in a natural space

]]> 2025-09-06 20:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863896 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863911 We are a museum in the city but are lucky enough to have a smaller outdoor space. We have a garden, sandbox, bubble table, paint area…

]]> 2025-09-06 20:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863911 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863919 Use them as talking points for emotional healing and building family connections.

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863928 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571863933 We love to add clay, sticks and stones to our table top programs

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864003 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864060 Enhance our pollinator garden and add signage to contextualize

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864078 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864083 We just installed flower planters, maybe we can observe for pollinators.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864083 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864117 encourage community members and guest to maintain the spaces we currently have around our museum

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864200 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864222 Maturango Museum uses the garden space to look for tracks, animals, and use the labyrinth.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864222 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864264 Incorporate outdoor programs on a regular basis, utilizing the park next door .

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Could be enhanced with educational programming in the garden space.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864319 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864391 We’ve utilized indoor aquaponics with limited outdoor spaces.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864391 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864485 We host programs out to our GROW gallery. We have plants, fruit trees, vegetable gardens, flowers, a bee hive, and aquaponics. We also Utilize Forest Park’s green spaces outside of our Planetarium.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864485 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571864650 We have a Sensory Garden, a Pollinator Garden, and a Native Trout creek! We also use some of our “living fossils” as discussion topics (like our ferns, ginkgos, and dawn redwoods)!

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]]> 2025-09-06 20:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571865003 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571865096 Nature journaling! Love the book by Emily Lygren and John Muir Laws

]]> 2025-09-06 20:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571865096 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571869380 We are in the center of Las Vegas, much of the land has been developed with modern architecture, but there might be some places where green spaces can be accessed in residential/private areas. Or even under used spaces like balconies.

]]> 2025-09-06 20:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571869380 https://padlet.com/growinggreatastc/glzc42rhw3mtybiu/wish/3571872591 We have an exhibit on the Florida trail and have a scavenger hunt associated with it for guests to go through, and read the signs and clues to find the answer

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