About Us

Thank you for visiting and for your interest in learning more about us. Granby Nature Preschool and Kindergarten is a farm and nature preschool and kindergarten in Granby, Connecticut. Our home base is at Holcomb Farm, a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm with active, sustainable community-based vegetable gardens and some 300 acres of meadows, pastures, streams, ponds, forests and trails.

Ours is a place-based program, meaning that we believe children learn essential skills and concepts most appropriately when they are guided to focus first on their immediate environment.

GNPnK also offers multiple learning activities using the rich resources within our community. Granby is an extraordinary town with more than 30 farms, access to a game preserve, impressive land trust properties, and nature trails. Like many towns in New England Granby’s values of farm, community and land are a significant part of Granby’s vision. It makes sense to offer young children a solid grounding within a community we all love through experiential, integrated learning in these farm and nature settings.                                                                       

We follow the Connecticut State Learning Domains (Domains of Learning and Development (CT ELDS)) and Essential Dispositions (Components of Social Emotional and Intellectual Habits K3) for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds. Concepts, skills, domains and dispositions are seamlessly integrated into the immersive experiences of farm and nature, and unfold within an age-appropriate balance between free play and exploration, and guided learning. Children enhance their knowledge, concepts and skills through music, movement and art. It is through these opportunities that children also learn about relationships and interdependence among themselves and their classmates, their families and their neighborhood farms, natural settings and plant and animal communities.