To transform the lifestyle of city children & families through the creation of outdoor learning gardens, enabling nature play, food gardening & environmental education. The EC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded from the perspective of loss—the loss of natural play spaces for healthy child development & the loss of garden space to grow food. A multitude of child health conditions and greater food insecurity is the result of these losses and the status quo we seek to change. Our three-fold strategy is to combine natural play space & food growing with the permanent educational resources of an eco-center to initiate lifestyle change and stewardship of our local environment long term. .