About Us

Greetings from Brooklyn!  My name is Adriane Stare and I'm the owner of Caribou Baby, a new store in Greenpoint- Williamsburg offering products and classes for pregnancy, birth preparation and parenting. Our baby supplies and toys are carefully selected to encourage simple and healthy living. With urban families and small apartments in mind, our goal is to provide high-quality, safe, and necessary basics that support intuitive parenting and inspire you to engage with your children.

Wearing my baby was the single most important thing I learned as a new mom. I strapped him on my front, back, side and stomach in all types of weather as we went about our life in the city. I am inspired by the simplicity and beauty of traditional babywearing practices in other cultures around the world. Eskimo families, for example, sew gorgeous parkas made of caribou skin with built-in pouches in the back for carrying their babies. The Caribou is a majestic creature that has provided Inuit tribes with food, clothing, tools and shelter for millennia. It is a symbol of sustenance, strength, and respect for the environment - values with which I aspire to raise my family. These sentiments, along with my desire to bring to my neighborhood a resource for birth education and natural parenting supplies, is how Caribou Baby was born.

Caribou Baby is located at 272 Driggs Avenue in Greenpoint, just two blocks from the McCarren park playground.  The in-store class space is a 20x20 sky-lit room, complete with kitchen and direct access to a backyard garden. I hope Caribou Baby serves you well as you raise your new family!