Member Spotlight

Meet some of the members of the Natural Start Alliance!

two children looking at a coqui frog in a jar

Keiki O Kahawai – Hāmākua Forest School

Get to know Natural Start member, Keiki O Kahawai – Hāmākua Forest School, a forest school based in the northeastern communities of Honomū and Honokaʻa, Hawai’i.
two children showing off plants in the garden

Origins Education Preschool

Get to know Natural Start member, Origins Education, Missoula’s premiere nature-based early childhood education preschool.

Location

Missoula, MT
children in woods

Anna Murray-Douglass Academy School No. 12

Get to know Natural Start member, Anna Murray-Douglass Academy School No. 12, a Rochester, NY public school host to a nature-based learning program for children in grades PreK–6.
Sooke SD Nature Kindergarten

Sooke School District Nature Kindergarten

Get to know one of our NatStart25 site tour programs, Sooke School District Nature Kindergarten, a public school district program of British Columbia, Canada.

Location

British Columbia, Canada
Brazilian child playing outside with turtle

Quintais Brincantes

Learn about one of our NatStart25 site tour programs, Quintais Brincantes, a nature-based early childhood program collective based in Brazil.

Location

Brazil
children in an outdoor shed poking their tongues out at the camera

Wild Oak Preschool

Get to know Natural Start member, Wild Oak Preschool, a fully-licensed nature-based preschool program located in the rural community of Applegate Valley in Southern Oregon.

Location

Williams, OR
two children sitting on a log facing each other and laughing

First Roots-Wild Roots

Get to know Natural Start member, First Roots Underhill of First Roots-Wild Roots, a nature-based infant/toddler program based in northern Vermont.

Location

VT
Child climbing a rock

Boston Outdoor Preschool Network

Boston Outdoor Preschool Network is a nonprofit organization focused on nature-based early education across various program sites in Massachusetts.

Location

Boston, MA
children walking with teacher in a prairie

Field Station Cooperative Preschool

Field Station Cooperative Preschool is a nature-based cooperative preschool located within Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana.

Location

Porter, IN
children holding leaves

Cocoplum Nature School

Cocoplum Nature School provides nature-based programs that emphasize unstructured play and children’s innate connection to nature.