After three years working in an urban setting in Dubai, owner and manager of Meadow Lane Children’s Nursery in St Ives, Sophia Covill, was desperate to create a more back-to-basics ethos in her own nursery on her return to the UK.
‘I had this dream of opening somewhere where children could be outdoors and learn basic life skills,’ she explains. ‘It was a bit of an eye-opener when I was away that children weren’t being given the opportunity to do basic things like growing their own fruit and veg. That’s really where the idea originally started. My dad and brother found some farmland, and I thought it would be absolutely perfect for children to be outside and self-sufficient and able to learn some of those skills.’
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