BY TERI R. WILLIAMS | PHOTOS BY DAPHNE WALKER Some farms produce food, some shelter animals. This one helps children learn to appreciate nature. if you want to teach a child the color yellow, you could hand her a coloring book picture of a baby chick and a yellow crayon, or you could show her a yellow baby chick, and let her touch it. Lisa Williams understood that showing beats telling every time. But then, she’d been in the daycare business for some 20 years and knew a thing or two about teaching strategies with little ones. She also had the benefit of nature for a teacher as a child when playing meant going outside. “As a child, I was always outside,” said Lisa. Her playmates for the day might be anything from a bug to a snake. And when it rained, it was just an invitation to Lisa to make the environment in which she played that much more inviting. Lisa lived in Waycross, Georgia, and was in the childcare business for 20 years. For 12 of the 20, she spent half the day at one daycare and the other half at her second one across town. “In 2008, I sold one of them just to downsize. We moved into our brand new house in October 2008. Sixteen months after moving Hometown Living At Its Best 37
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