With support from an international team of gardeners and landscape artists, the Children’s Peaceful Garden was created for the first time in 2000, and became a template for children’s play spaces around the world.
The project includes adults and children working together to create a sanctuary dedicated to peaceful and imaginative play, while learning how to plant, landscape, and design in harmony with the environment.
The Children’s Peaceful Garden includes native woodland plants, flowers to attract beneficial insects and pollinators, sensory-oriented gardens, organic vegetables, a constructed wetlands and pond fed by run-off water, as well as “trash to treasure” constructions from recycled materials.
SGITW’s Children’s Peaceful Garden is currently located at several sites in New York: At Ossining High School, Anne M. Dorner Middle School, and at Abbott House. SGITW has two Children’s Peaceful Gardens on the Big Island of Hawai’i, at The Volcano School of Arts & Sciences and Kula Honua. (Visitors are welcome by appointment.)
