The Growing Garden Child Care Center, LLC has partnered with Women for a Healthy Environment to make sure that our facility is as eco-healthy as possible for our children, staff, and environment. 

What standards do we need to meet? What have we done to meet these standards? Let's take a look at the big ones!

Air Purifiers

Austin air purifiers were added to the majority of classrooms to help with fine particulates. "Austin I" and "Austin II", as the children have named them, have reduced dust particles and made the air cleaner which particularly benefits those with breathing issues or those who are immunocompromised. 

Non Toxic Craft Supplies

​We use only non-toxic art supplies approved by the Art and Creative Materials Institute (ACMI). Look for ACMI non-toxic seal ‘AP’ at www.acmiart.org

Cleaning Liquids

We use fragrance-free, 3rd party certified  least-toxic cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting products. When sanitizers and disinfectants are required, they are used only for their intended purpose and in strict accordance with all label instructions. 

Lead Remediation

We use only cold water for drinking and cooking; we flush all cooking and drinking outlets after long periods of non-use; and we clean debris from our outlet screens or aerators on a regular basis. We had our water tested and installed water filtration devices that have been certified to remove lead for additional treatment of drinking water at the outlet to bring the water to a '0' at testing.