Many children and families in urban communities don’t have easy access to hands-on environmental learning, making it harder to build a connection to nature or understand how everyday actions impact local green spaces.
Through Let’s Get Planting!, youth leader Tatiana Meneses-Sab is creating opportunities for children and families to learn by doing. The program brings interactive planting activities into community spaces, where participants grow herbs, explore biodiversity, and learn simple ways to care for the environment at home. Creative activities and take-home resources help make the experience accessible, engaging, and easy to carry forward beyond the event.
With more than 600 plants in the ground and hundreds of families engaged, the initiative is helping build stronger connections to nature and a shared sense of responsibility for Calgary’s green spaces.
