Program
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.
What
Spaces built for outdoor learning
We approach infrastructure as educational ecology: trails become pathways for inquiry, gardens become living laboratories, and outdoor classrooms become spaces for collaboration, reflection, and connection. Each project is context-specific — grounded in local ecology and culture, and designed to evolve over time alongside the learners who use it.
Working with schools, municipalities, and community organizations, Grow WILDE helps reimagine underused or conventional spaces into vibrant learning landscapes that support well-being, climate literacy, and long-term community benefit.
Vision
Places where learning takes root
Natural Learning Campuses are not an add-on to education — they are foundational infrastructure for a more resilient future. Well-designed environments make outdoor learning accessible and sustainable across every season, and every learner.
Purpose
Environment shapes learning
Space is not neutral. Research is linked to the relationship between physical environment and cognitive engagement, well-being, and belonging. When a schoolyard is designed as a living ecosystem — with habitat, growing space, and places to observe and reflect — it becomes a curricular anchor and a daily invitation to learn.
Plan
How it works
Partner with schools and municipalities to co-design spaces that include outdoor classrooms, gardens, trails, and renewable energy features
Map solar paths, wind corridors, and microclimates to design for year-round outdoor use
Ensure every design decision ties directly to a learning need observed on the land
Build in stewardship structures so communities maintain and develop the campus over time
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Ways to support Infrastructure Development
Architects and builders
Collaborate with our team to design Natural Learning Campuses that serve both learners and land.
CollaborateFunders
Invest in capital projects that transform school grounds into lasting community learning landscapes.
Fund a campusCommunities
Help design, steward, and develop outdoor spaces that serve the whole neighbourhood.
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