Evergreen Early Learning Centre is a childcare and daycare centre at 584B Ruakura Road in Newstead, Hamilton. The centre describes itself as a kiwi back yard, where children learn outdoors and by doing. Children run around outside, climb trees, play on real grass, and make things with materials from their surroundings. The centre's practice is grounded in whanaugatanga and manaakitanga, with a focus on kindness, empathy and respect.
Children care for animals, tend an orchard and plants, help with cooking, and collect eggs from the chickens. The centre says it shares the food it grows. A parent quoted on the website says the staff helped their son settle in and made the family feel welcome, and that the grounds have plenty of room to play indoors and out. Another parent praises the contact with farm animals and the extra-curricular activities. The website invites people to book a tour.