Bridge to Nature

The project supports use of the Guadalupe River Park as an outdoor lab to help familiarize children with the outdoors, instill a sense of environmental stewardship, and to teach hands‐on, standards‐based science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) lessons, with a special emphasis on serving students from Title One schools.

The Master Gardener Community Education Center at Martial Cottle Park: Supporting the Environment at Your Own Home is a project that will create a multi‐generational Community Educational Center that will help individuals and families to become stewards of nature and to grow healthy food year‐round using environmentally sound gardening practices.

The Open Space Authority contributed funds towards the development of this 1.3-acre park, including walking trails, a pedestrian bridge, benches, a landscaped swale with a biotreatment component, and interpretive signs that shows the agricultural history of the site.