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cities, children do not often have the opportunity to make contact with
nature, so they often have an incomplete notion of it. Local parks in the
neighbourhood provide a sort of contact, but when you ask children to draw
a garden, the paths, benches and flower-beds dominate in their drawings.
From October
to June 2001, 330 children from Brest and its 10 twin cities, in regular
contact with botanists, naturalists, council gardeners and artists, discovered
that the design and evolution of a park obeys ecological principles.
The park is
richer or less rich in diversity according to their actions.
Each school
made a plan for a park:
an ideal garden,
an accomplice, a playmate incorporating ecological diversity and cultural
reminders.
From the
12th to the 16th June, child-ambassadors from the
twin cities met in Brest for a week to pool their efforts and create the
plan for the twinning garden together.
An exhibition
of their work showed the people of Brest some inventive gardens full of
interesting features. Attracting the birds and butterflies, creating Tarzan's
garden, trampoline hills or a musical island are no longer problems.
To contact
us:
Association
Jardins d'enfants
4, rue A.Morvan
29200 Brest
jardinsdenfants@free.fr
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