Early Years Education (E.Y.E) Magazine 2021 - Digability

Early Years Education (E.Y.E) Magazine 2021

A vertical take on inclusive gardens

When wondering what makes a great garden for children with disability, the answer is it doesn’t need to be special, it just needs to allow everyone to participate. Inclusion in the garden isn’t about every opportunity being equal for all children. It’s about designing spaces or activities so that all children have a chance to meaningfully participate.

Here I explain the core tenets of inclusive gardening and apply them to a very new way of gardening for children with (and without) disability – vertical growing!

Click here to read the full article.

Acknowledgement of Country

I wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands across this country we call Australia and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I live on Bundjalung Country of the Arakwal People. I am privileged to work across many countries including Eora, Biripi, Bundjalung, Wiradjuri, Barkindji and Kulin.

These are, and always will be Aboriginal Lands.

I also acknowledge my responsibility to better embed Indigenous traditional knowledge within the field of Therapeutic Horticulture, to decolonise predominant theories used in the field, to remain aware of and challenge learned and subconscious racism, and to privilege the voices of Indigenous traditional Elders and their communities within my projects.

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