Planting Seeds: Fostering Preschool Children’s Interactions with Nature and Enhancing Intergenerational Relationships in a Campus Community Garden

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The "Planting Seeds" intergenerational community gardening initiative in western Canada has involved children aged 3–6 years from a university campus childcare centre since 2015. This project has fostered intergenerational relationships, increased children's understanding of food origins, and enhanced their knowledge of planting, nurturing, growing, and consuming plants.