Thank you for taking the time to get to know the story behind Green Beginnings.

 

I was surrounded by children for as long as I can remember. My mother was a family day care provider for 18 years, and from the age of about 9 years old and right up until I left for university, our family shared our home with other families. I woke in the morning to the sound of children talking and came home from school to a little one sleeping in my room.  It was the norm for me, and when I continued on my professional journey it was only natural that some of us (my sister is a PE teacher) continued on with this relationship with children. 

I went on to become an Early Childhood Teacher and formed a very strong vision about what early childhood should look like, not just for children, but for the adults too who spent their days with these little people, together. I have always been passionate about play space design and aesthetics, and in particular to how the environment we create influences how the people within it feel, interact and play. I had dreams of creating my own play space for children very early into my career and would save vision boards on my laptop of what my child centre would look like.  When our own children came along it was easy to convince my husband Andrew that the world needed a place like Green Beginnings. 

 

We lived on acreage at the time with cows and sheep and chickens, and had veggie patches and fruit trees. Our children were harvesting fruit and veg, bailing hay, collecting eggs and keeping fox's out of the chicken pen. They were muddy outdoors every day.