It starts with family.
Ours, and yours.
Because first and foremost, Mouse’s Garden is a family business designed to help other families flourish. We provide a warm and nurturing community where you can feel truly at home, surrounded by fresh air, open skies, and the simple wonder of the natural world.
Set within the beautiful Victorian brick walls of Coleshill Organics, in the heart of the National Trust village of Coleshill, Oxfordshire, Mouse’s Garden occupies a quiet corner of the working farm that our co-founders, Flo — a qualified Norland nanny, and Sonia — a former primary school teacher and deputy head, have called home for over 25 years.
Today Flo and her husband Alex are raising their two daughters on the farm with the same freedom and wonderment that Flo’s own childhood was so indelibly coloured by. Now they all want to share the magic of Coleshill with you and your family, ready to let another generation of children take its beauty and magic into their souls.
“You cannot make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen.”
— Vince Gowmon
Mouse’s Garden was established to give children the chance to form a lasting connection to nature. More than just a learning experience, it’s a way of creating an indelible bond with the natural world.
Your child will grow up aware of their responsibility as a custodian of our planet, and an unwavering sense of their place within it. Being in nature connects children to their sense of self, ingraining a deep belief in their own strength, abilities and resilience. Our hope is that this foundational experience forms the compass by which they then move through the rest of their life, living fully and freely with kindness and compassion.
Our Eco-Friendly Approach
Being on an organic farm, we’re passionate about sustainable living. At Mouse’s Garden our toilets are composting, we don’t use chemical cleaning products, and we use biodegradable nappies and wipes. Toys are natural materials, we use enamel dishware, and strive to be as plastic-free as we possibly can
It’s vital to us that our environmental impact at Mouse’s Garden be as gentle as possible. We work in synchronicity with the organic farm, and uphold the same ethos to nurture the land and live in harmony with the seasonal sway of the natural world. Imparting these same values is an important component of our learning approach. We teach children to take care of things and mend them when they break, showing them that well-crafted natural toys will last far longer than flashy plastic. Reuse, recreate and restore. Conscious, slow living over fast consumerism. We even have our own resident carpenter and ‘Can Do Hero’, Alex, who is always on hand to help maintain and repair things, and inspire the children to do the same.