The Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative offers children, youth  and adults an interactive approach to outdoor learning. By using nature to stimulate learning, the program aims to become a leader in facilitating nature and outdoor education programming. Through providing opportunities for quality family outdoor experiences, promoting healthy lifestyles and increasing the value of community green spaces, the program not only creates unique learning experiences for all ages, but aims to bolster the quality of life for everyone in the community.

Through a three-year grant provided by The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, the program also compliments the content students receive in traditional classrooms in the Martinsville and Henry County school systems. Providing learning opportunities for children in an outdoor setting not only helps children appreciate the environment, but it has also been linked to helping them develop lifelong creative thinking skills as well as healthy and physically active lifestyles.

	•	VIEW THE MHC CNI BLOG