To help our communities equitably implement sustainable and regenerative practices to slow and adapt to climate change.
The Children’s Sensory Garden will be part of the Oak Woodland Community Garden in Locke-Paddon Park in Marina. A 40 foot square area with amenities enjoyed by children that also contribute to learning about the natural world and playing in it with their family and other children. These amenities will include a mud kitchen, sitting benches and chairs or stumps for children, logs and boulders to climb, native wildflowers to see and touch, and a vegetable garden to grow, taste, and smell.
In the garden children, parents, and families will be able to connect to the natural world, develop an awareness of invasive species, get dirty, have fun, make friends, explore the life cycle of plants, heal the body and mind, and explore the water cycle.
CSMC works with community groups in seven Monterey County cities and Big Sur to establish and maintain sustainable projects such as rewilding parks with local native wildflowers and establishing food forests and community gardens that help our community toward an applied environmental literacy and support the natural environment challenged by climate change and loss of habitat and open spaces.
To add this next layer to the Oak Woodland Community Garden would be a true blessing and would be an amazing space for our community
- Valine Moreno, Marina
