Welcome to the Natural Learning Initiative!
Edible Schoolyard, Greensboro Children's Museum

The Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children's Museum is a "seed-to-table" educational facility offering gardening, cooking, and healthy nutrition...

read more >>

Montessori School of Jacksonville

Project Greenspace, a comprehensive Design Program and Master Plan for the Montessori School of Jacksonville. Click here to view the project description.

News

Shape NC and POD at the Smart Start Conference

The 2012 National Smart Start Conference

The Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC will host the Smart Start Confernece April  30 through May 3. Two Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) projects will be represented.

read more >>

Rocking Earth Day Rock Decorating Contest

Rocking Earth Day

NC Triangle area families and Bright Horizons childcare centers are participating in this rock decorating contest to celebrate Earth Day 2012.

read more >>

Events

9th Annual Natural Learning Design Institute

Design for Early Childhood: Health, Play and Learning

NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC

The 9th Annual Design Institute featured presentations by experts in safety, policy, and early childhood education combined with outdoor hands-on activities. The program offered innovative ideas and concepts for participants to implement back home.

Growing In Place Symposium 2012

Design for Children, Families, and Nature in the City

Location: Marbles Kids Museum
201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
2012 Theme: Parks, Pathways, and Meaningful Destinations


More and more people are living in cities. To encourage families to invest in urban domestic life, an infrastructure of attractive, traffic-protected routes is required to connect urban neighborhoods to meaningful destinations. Join us at this year's symposium focused on urban neighborhood design for children and families and the foundation it provides for health, well-being, and resource conservation in the 21st century.

read more >>