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GROW WILDE

Because our education system was built for another century. It's time to build what comes next.

Nature is the ultimate classroom.

Grow WILDE delivers immersive outdoor education experiences that bring curriculum to life through hands-on, place-based learning. Programs are co-designed with partner schools to meet specific curricular outcomes — academically, developmentally, and logistically.

Students study science through field investigation, mathematics through navigation, language through storytelling, and social studies through land-based inquiry — building confidence, collaboration, and a sense of responsibility to the natural world.

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Our Programs

Built for schools. Shaped by nature.

Discover the ecosystems we co-create with our school partners—custom-designed for your students, rooted in local ecology, and shaped by the living seasons.

Collaborative Indigenous Programs

Collaborative Indigenous Programs

Supporting communities in building culturally grounded, academically strong, land-based education programs on their own terms.

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Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Grow WILDE creates shared outdoor experiences that bring families, neighbours, and communities together — building ecological awareness and social bonds through seasonal programs, community gardens, and multi-generational learning.

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Educator Training

Educator Training

Grow WILDE equips teachers with the skills, tools, and confidence to deliver curriculum outdoors — through hands-on workshops, site-based training, and ongoing coaching grounded in real practice.

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Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure Development

Grow WILDE partners with schools, municipalities, and communities to design and build Natural Learning Campuses — outdoor classrooms, regenerative schoolyards, and nature-rich environments built for year-round learning.

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Outdoor Education Programs

Outdoor Education Programs

Meaningful, curriculum-aligned outdoor education, designed with your school — without adding another burden to busy teachers. Curriculum comes alive outside.

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Skill Development

Skill Development

Grow WILDE's skill development programs build real, transferable competence through hands-on, land-based training — in wilderness skills, ecological monitoring, regenerative farming, and creative outdoor arts.

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Sustainability Initiatives

Sustainability Initiatives

Grow WILDE supports students, schools, and communities in moving from environmental awareness to everyday regenerative practice — through school gardens, food-growing programs, waste reduction systems, and hands-on stewardship.

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Volunteer & Internship Opportunities

Volunteer & Internship Opportunities

Grow WILDE offers purposeful volunteer and internship placements for students, professionals, and community members — structured around real work in outdoor education, campus development, research, and community programs.

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Youth Leadership

Youth Leadership

Grow WILDE's youth leadership programs place young people in real outdoor situations — expeditions, collaborative projects, and peer roles — where leadership is practiced, not studied.

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Our Impact

Changing the landscape of learning.

Real numbers that make a difference.

  • 9
    Active Programs
    Built to cultivate curiosity, grow connections, and empower a sustainable future.
  • K–12
    Curriculum-aligned
    Co-designed with each partner school to match learning outcomes.
  • 100%
    Place-based
    Every program is rooted in local-to-you land, ecology, and community.
  • 30+
    Years in Education
    Our team's combined experience — Rewilding the system from the inside out.

Built with community

Partnerships with First Nations, educators, and families

We don't drop programs into communities — we build them with the people who know the land. Our Collaborative Indigenous Programs and educator partnerships shape how each Grow WILDE experience is grounded, taught, and remembered.

Collaborative Indigenous Programs
When students learn in the forest, they bring something back to the classroom that no textbook can teach — attention, patience, and respect for the systems that hold us.
Jeff Barrett
Founder, Grow WILDE

Get Involved

Four ways to grow with us

Whether you have an hour, a dollar, a business, or a school — there is a place for you in this work.

Volunteer

Bring your skills to the land. Join a Grow WILDE facilitation day, trail stewardship project, or community event alongside our team and partner schools.

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Donate

Every dollar funds access for schools that couldn't otherwise afford outdoor education. No minimum. Direct to programs. Receipts available for Canadian taxpayers.

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Partner

Schools, First Nations, and businesses: build something together that outlasts a single season. Our partnerships are co-designed, place-rooted, and built to last.

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Book a consult

Running a school, a First Nation, or an education programme? Let's talk about what a Grow WILDE program could look like for your students and context.

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Bring Grow WILDE to your school

Book a consult and let's talk about how a curriculum-aligned outdoor program could work for your students.