Thanks to a very generous donation from the Morton Family, we are creating a beautiful interactive garden in and round our Health Centre. The garden will promote nature connection, mindfulness, and well-being by encouraging children to engage with nature. The garden features a lovely water feature with small stream tumbling over rocks and whimsical benches carved from logs.
Other features will include:· A Zen Garden – providing opportunities for kids to express themselves through creative designs
· A Sensory Garden – by including plants with beautiful, smells, textures, and colour
· A Critter Friendly Garden – with native shrubs such as Nannyberry, Serviceberry, Honeysuckle, Ninebark to attract birds. We will also be installing bird houses, bee houses, bat, butterfly and toad houses, salamander boards, bird feeders and more, all the in hopes of attracting more wildlife.
· Pollinator Garden – to attract butterflies and moths – especially the endangered monarch butterfly.
· Gnome Homes and Fairy Gardens – To activate a child’s imagination, we’ll have colourful shells, stones, boughs, and bark so that kids can make their own creations out of natural materials to attract the elusive fairies and gnomes living around Camp Kawartha.
We will announce the official opening of the Morton Healing Garden with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in early June 2023. Stay tuned!
