Adam Bienenstock, centre, inspired a ballroom of educators to get creative.
six at a dozen or so tables, and asked them to construct mockups of natural playgrounds using wet sand, rocks, sticks and the principles he discussed earlier in the day. Everyone had a fun and meaningful day, with the exception of the hotel staff, who were apprehensive at best. We proved at the end that landscape horticulturalists can clean up a site like no other, so the police and the lawyers were not called in. LNB wants to move forward with this, as we see it is relationship-building and we can enhance what we have already started with National Tree Day and the Vimy Oak Legacy project. Not just with the school system, but with communities. As fate would have it, there was a Green Cities conference going on at the same venue, and we had the opportunity to continue a dialogue with them. It’s worth mentioning that we had a local multicultural association there as well. All these are little pieces of a beautiful green puzzle. LT
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