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Happy Green Bee Organic Baby Clothes

Happy Green Bee’s mission is to create cheerful, gender-free clothing with sustainable earth-friendly manufacturing practices in an effort to meet and increase the demand for organic children’s clothing that not only looks and feels great, but is contributing in positive ways to the welfare of our planet.

Born mid-century in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Roxanne Quimby developed an early passion for the arts and nature that was to become the central theme of her future business philosophy. In 1975, after receiving her BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, Roxanne moved to a small town in central Maine, where she used her life savings to buy her first 30 acres of woods. She built a small cabin where she and her twins, Hannah and Lucas, lived in harmony with nature for almost fifteen years without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences.

In 1989, Roxanne and her partner Burt, a beekeeper and refugee from New York, started Burt’s bees, a cottage industry which quickly evolved into an internationally renowned personal care company with a core commitment to natural ingredients and earth-friendly packaging. In 2003, Roxanne sold the now multi-million dollar company while remaining on the Board of Directors to help ensure the company maintains its commitment to natural integrity.

With the proceeds of the sale, Roxanne founded two foundations. The first awards grants to nonprofits in support of the environment and the arts. The second owns and operates 70,000 acres of wilderness in the north woods of Maine. After a year-long respite traveling from Antarctica to Paris, Roxanne began to crave a new challenge. She saw a void in children’s clothing and a lack of awareness of the benefits of organic cotton. Thus she began to ‘sew’ the seeds of her newest venture – Happy Green Bee – an all-organic clothing line made especially for children.

Happy Green Bee has a simple philosophy: clothing that is colorful, playful and ecologically responsible. “We created Happy Green Bee so that a child can be a child first and foremost,” Roxanne explains. “By using organic cotton, a comfortable and practical fabric, and simple bee-striped patterns, children feel as comfortable as they look, while their parents take a small step in making a big difference in the environment their children will live in.”

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