NLI Newsletter – December 2022

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NLI NewsletterDecember 2022

Creating environments for healthy human development and a healthy biosphere for generations to come.

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Natural Learning Initiative

December 2022

Children play outdoors with tree, bird, fish, and spiral symbols, promoting natural learning.

Wishing You a Peaceful and Productive Year Ahead!

View NLI’s end-of-year greeting card here

Children in a garden harvest carrots, promoting outdoor play and nature-based learning.

Hands-on Childcare Garden Intervention

Nilda Cosco and research colleagues at Cornell University, NC State, and Texas Tech University, describe in a recent article the impact of hands-on fruit and vegetable (FV) gardening on healthy eating behavior of preschool children attending childcare centers serving disadvantaged communities. The findings are…. learn more

Where are the Bacon Seeds?

This preschooler quote introduced Dr. Nilda Cosco’s closing keynote to the Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN).
Subtitled, “Outcomes of the Randomized Control Trial on Childcare Outdoor Learning
Environments as Active Food Systems (COLEAFS),” Cosco’s address introduced
“environment & behavior” hands-on gardening…. learn more