Many children, and adults for that matter, don't have opportunities these days to play in the great outdoors and get an appreciation for the life and environment that surrounds them. But a new business called "Field Trip Friends," helps to teach toddlers to Be Green 2.

Parents and children are getting an up close look at their island home. It's said you can't love and care for what you don't know and these little ones, and their parents, are getting to know it.

"I don't have many opportunities to spend time with my son outside and I've lived here my whole life and Cindy's taken us places we've never been before," said one of the “Field Trip Friends” mothers, Mahea Villanueva.

Cindy McFarlane-Flores was a teacher for 16 years, until she chose to be a stay "OUT" of home mom, starting "Field Trip Friends" last year, taking parents and children on field trip "ed-ventures," mixing education and adventure.

"The goal is to get families outside into nature, exploring nature and inspiring their senses and promoting environmental education," said Macfarlane-Flores.

"Before we found it it was really hard to think of something to do every weekend so we took him out and all that but now it's fun and imaginative stuff that's sort of off the beaten path," said Ben Banchek, one of the program’s fathers.

"Just yesterday we were at a lo'i where they have a dairy cow so not only did we learn about the kalo and the whole culture behind it, but we also got to see a dairy cow be milked and we actually made butter and spread it on our taro bread and ate it with our poi," said Macfarlane-Flores.

"It gives us a chance to get out and go outside, we have memberships to the zoo, aquarium, the discovery center, but there's no way that I would go out to a taro patch or a ranch in Waimanalo so this is like, seriously our highlight of the week," said Susan Lee, another mother of the program.